Colour processing(portra)?... at home.

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Looking into processing colour film at home... Just wondering how any of you currently doing it are maintaining the higher temperatures? and how many of you have a Jobo/ neccessary? as most people ive been reading on various forms have jobo's etc...

Lastly, how forgiving is portra for home development (i.e temps n times not being bang on)
 
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I use a jobo system.

They are amazing for c41 and E6, highly recommend them.
 
CPE2+ come up quite frequently on eBay, you are looking for fully working mechanics, accurate temperature hold - and ideally holding temperature at the indicated degrees celsius. Reels and tanks are completely different from the Paterson system, so keep that in mind.

The lift is a useful feature but not essential, and you ideally want the "plus" model which is rated for tanks with more liquid in them - the non-plus models don't have quite as durable mechanics. CPA2 and above have extra features that are probably superfluous for basic C-41/E-6.
 
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I may put my Jobo CPE-2 up in the classifieds soon as I've royally fallen out with colour neg and I can't afford the chems for E-6 to do slide
 
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Just a boiling water job?
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not boiling ,,,just a bowl in the sink ,,,up to 30C ,,checked it every 5 / 10 mins and topped up from the tap ,,left all the plastic bottles in to get them up to temp ,( next time i will get the temp to 32 /33C i think )
 
I've never devd colour at home Mel so can't offer any help I'm afraid, however going on the results posted by Donutagain, the temptation to try the "bowl in sink" method is very strong.
 
rather than a bowl in the sink, I used one of those thermos coolboxes (the picnic box sized ones) and dropped a tropical fish tank heater in along with a thermometer. Heater was set to it's max (36c IIRC) so I'd leave the bottles in the tank to get to 36c for a hour or so, then just before starting to load the film onto spirals I'd take the water in the coolbox to 39c by water from the kettle. Load the film to the dev tank, fill tank with some of the tempering water, drop tank in the coolbox, put the lid on and leave it for 10 minutes. By this time everything was at 38c, pour out the soak water, pitch the first dev and off we go. Thermostat heater held the second dev, blix and stabiliser at near enough to 38c for the rest of the process.
 
I will probably put it up at Easter when I am back from uni and have some time, I would do it now but I have exams soon :(
 
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