8x10 E6 Development

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I've got an project in mind of capturing family portraits on 8x10 slide film. Having looked on the world wide web it and no many places do it

https://www.the-darkroom.co.uk/prod...ocessing/455-e6-8x10-sheet-film-develop-only- ( at £20 a sheet thats almost £400 total for one pack of film)

Does anyone else know a service that provides 8x10 e6

Next option is to self develop which I do with Black and white often with no issue. 1 pack of cinestill e6 is £40 which would do a whole pack of 8x10 and I need to purchase some equipment upfront

1. Jobo tank with manual or cheap motor system - Will the chemicals stay warm long enough once up to temp
2. Tray develop - again how to keep chems at temp
3. Stearman press 8x10 day light tank - similar to tray
4. Jobo CPA2 - wait for a cheap on to come along on ebay. I can use a single sheet tank or the expert that can take 5 8x10s

This will likely be a one off project so I am trying to balance consistency of the lab dev along with DIY its risks and making my money back

I cant imagine going over 50 sheets total so it may be best to just invest in the lab

Thoughts/ideas

Thanks!
 
Allowing for the fact that I've never actually done it, I would have thought that a Jobo CPE2 processor would keep your temperature contolled. It might cost about £300 to buy one, but pretty sure you'd get much of that back when you sell it on?
 
Disclaimer up front: I've never used any LF colour film , let alone developed any.

Like Peter, I suspect that the Jobo would be your best option, but there are other possibilities discussed both in the LF zero to hero thread and on my website

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Peter B said:
Allowing for the fact that I've never actually done it, I would have thought that a Jobo CPE2 processor would keep your temperature contolled. It might cost about £300 to buy one, but pretty sure you'd get much of that back when you sell it on?
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Yeah I considered the Jobo cpa as well as that can take the expert drums - not sure the cpa can, cheers!
 
Don't know about E6 but for C41 you only need to keep the developer at 38 degrees for 6 minutes or so, the other chemicals are not so temperature cricitcal. It wouldn't be hard to just measure how quickly a tray or tank of water cools as a starting point.

You're going to need one hell of a projector for 8x10 slides ;)
 
There's a guy that does E6 in his Stearman SP810 here:

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IIRC what he does is he starts a degree or two hotter and it all averages out to 38C over time.

Here's the thermal profile of the SP810:

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Color Processing and the Thermal Profile of the SP-8x10

People have been asking about using the SP-8x10 for color processing. The real question is: "how do you control the temperature?" So we ran a thermal profile of the tray. The procedure is pretty simple: Fill the tray with water at the desired temperature and presoak for 1 minute. Empty and...
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I use the SP810 for my 8x10 work and it works fine, a bit of a hassle taking it apart and rinsing out all the fixer that gets on the fins each time, just don't expect quick results. It takes me about 4 hours to process 10 sheets, and that's with a modified Paterson Orbital alongside allowing me to process two sheets at a time. While I haven't done 8x10 E6 in the Stearman I have done 4 x 5x4 C41 sheets in the SP810 many times, all I did was heat up the chems to 39C to offset the drop as I add chems to the tank.
 
FruitFlakes said:
There's a guy that does E6 in his Stearman SP810 here:

Large Format Photography Forum

A discussion forum on large format phtography http://largeformatphotography.info
www.largeformatphotography.info

IIRC what he does is he starts a degree or two hotter and it all averages out to 38C over time.

Here's the thermal profile of the SP810:

shop.stearmanpress.com

Color Processing and the Thermal Profile of the SP-8x10

People have been asking about using the SP-8x10 for color processing. The real question is: "how do you control the temperature?" So we ran a thermal profile of the tray. The procedure is pretty simple: Fill the tray with water at the desired temperature and presoak for 1 minute. Empty and...
shop.stearmanpress.com

I use the SP810 for my 8x10 work and it works fine, a bit of a hassle taking it apart and rinsing out all the fixer that gets on the fins each time, just don't expect quick results. It takes me about 4 hours to process 10 sheets, and that's with a modified Paterson Orbital alongside allowing me to process two sheets at a time. While I haven't done 8x10 E6 in the Stearman I have done 4 x 5x4 C41 sheets in the SP810 many times, all I did was heat up the chems to 39C to offset the drop as I add chems to the tank.
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Awesome thanks! I did a very non scientific test last night of how much the heat drops in a small jobo tank with 500ml water at 100F and it only went down to 95F so this could work! A bit of faff this method but its save cash for faff or pay for ease ha

This looks very promising and def worth a test as I would pick up the 810 stearman for bnw anyway and stops me from impuse buying a £3.5k Jobo CPP3!
 
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My colour processing was last done in the days before high temperatures. I used a washing up bowl as a water bath to maintain temperature. I was using Paterson tanks, and you can still use them for 10x8 film.
 
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