Relaxing to watch… Bellini is my first color chemical kits. I made my first color print last week. Still struggling to find the correct color filter combination to remove the red/pink color cast :) I’m learning a lot from Aleksandr. Thank you!
I used the Adox and Bellini’s RA4 kits and, for me, both are good. I didn’t find any differences. For BW, Adox chemistry is very good and very cheap. CMS20 and HR50 (bw film) are incredible.
Just want to say thanks a million for these videos. You really opened up my eyes to how good the Jobo system is to use! I now use it to develop huge batches of film in one go, and then also will start RA4 printing this week. I've been using the RA4 chemistry from Bellini to develop my Vision 3 500T negatives and getting great results
That's the kit I bought last year. I prepared 500 ml working solutions, and used them for 6+ months, at 20°C and also 38°C (or 35 ? can't remember what's the recommended temp). Except for the longer dev time at 20°C, I didn't find any big difference. And the developer working solutions last very long (stored in almost full glass bottles, prepared with distilled water). Do you dry your Jobo drum between every single test strip or print ? I never do that since 1st bath is prewarming / rinsing the blueish filtration layer and never had any issue. And it enables me to reduce the printing turnover.
I just rinse it and and use microfibre cloth to dry big drops, i used to make a prewash, but for some reason on some kits development became a bit slow and image start loosing contrast, but probably it’s irrelevant - prewash also should work perfectly and it’s better for developer storage and conditions
@@NordicLab I use ADOX dont know why every time when I dilution new solution,there will be a color temperature that is inconsistent with the last time(every setup same)do you have this experience?
@@laugary8186 make sure you shake your mother solution before diluting (with distilled water). Also make sure your volumes are exactly the same every time (use adequately sized graduated cylinder).
Relaxing to watch… Bellini is my first color chemical kits. I made my first color print last week. Still struggling to find the correct color filter combination to remove the red/pink color cast :) I’m learning a lot from Aleksandr. Thank you!
Good luck 🤞 with practice it will be better for sure!
I used the Adox and Bellini’s RA4 kits and, for me, both are good. I didn’t find any differences. For BW, Adox chemistry is very good and very cheap. CMS20 and HR50 (bw film) are incredible.
It’s only cheap, rest of the thing questionable
@@NordicLab Well, how is going the color analyzer project?
@@arturors30 Slowly moving l was travelling a lot lately 😅
Just want to say thanks a million for these videos. You really opened up my eyes to how good the Jobo system is to use! I now use it to develop huge batches of film in one go, and then also will start RA4 printing this week. I've been using the RA4 chemistry from Bellini to develop my Vision 3 500T negatives and getting great results
Thx for support, glad it helps! But yes, jobo a bit old school and primitive, but for sure universal system
Thanks!
That's the kit I bought last year. I prepared 500 ml working solutions, and used them for 6+ months, at 20°C and also 38°C (or 35 ? can't remember what's the recommended temp). Except for the longer dev time at 20°C, I didn't find any big difference. And the developer working solutions last very long (stored in almost full glass bottles, prepared with distilled water).
Do you dry your Jobo drum between every single test strip or print ? I never do that since 1st bath is prewarming / rinsing the blueish filtration layer and never had any issue. And it enables me to reduce the printing turnover.
I just rinse it and and use microfibre cloth to dry big drops, i used to make a prewash, but for some reason on some kits development became a bit slow and image start loosing contrast, but probably it’s irrelevant - prewash also should work perfectly and it’s better for developer storage and conditions
Hi, if 20C for develop how many mins?thanks
@@laugary8186 At 20°C I was going for 2 min DEV and 2 min BLIX.
@@stratocactus many thanks ,next time let me try
Be careful with changing temperatures, it will cause dynamic range shift on each channel separately
I would like to know where you got those nice black boxes for the sleeves? Thanks!!
This boxes from Macodirect
How do you know when to change the solutions and mix fresh ?
If pure blacks became bluish and colours dulled it’s time, in generally by eye
@@NordicLab Thanks. I've been trying your idea and only mixing a small quantity not the whole amount.
Where do you get the test strip device from?
It’s oldstock, but i’m working on new one ☝️
So you just prepare in mini batches? whats the ratio you work with each solution?
I make 250 or 500 ml usually, it’s a bit less precise, but also works fine. Ratios exactly the same, just smaller volumes
Is it necessary to use stabilizer?
Or it's just something like photoflo?
Usually it’s necessary 👍
I also use Bellini ,that’s good and reasonable price，for me it’s better then ADOX
Unfortunately ADOX in my experience mostly trash, but i was quite surprised with the quality of Bellini
@@NordicLab I use ADOX dont know why every time when I dilution new solution,there will be a color temperature that is inconsistent with the last time(every setup same)do you have this experience?
@@laugary8186 make sure you shake your mother solution before diluting (with distilled water). Also make sure your volumes are exactly the same every time (use adequately sized graduated cylinder).
@@stratocactus hi I did shake it before use,but I didt use distilled water,maybe the problem from water?
Thank you
@@laugary8186 tap water minerals and pH vary from time to time. So that could be an issue.