The main things you want to think about when you decide on a size are these: I was actually really surprised at how user-friendly the booklet is when I first saw it. It’s just a little paper booklet that’s short, but is so nice and readable, and contains all the information you need, explained very, very clearly. I should also mention that the instructions in the kit are very well written. at this point, but the stabilizer treats and hardens the actual film to avoid any degradation over time.Īnd there you have it, those are the 4 things included in the kit. Your film is completely developed and ready to scan/print/etc. After you mix this with water, you use it in the third stage of developing. The Stabilizer powder is just a very small amount of white powder in a zip-loc bag (the other bags are strong, vacuum-sealed, opaque bags).Once you mix these, you’ll have a liquid solution that you use for the second step of developing. This is actually pretty cool to see, you just have to make sure you don’t mix them too fast, and you use a big enough container, because they create an endothermic reaction, and there’s a bit of bubbling and vapor. When you’re ready to develop these, you’ll mix both of them together with water, and you’ll actually see a chemical reaction when they come in contact. The Blix Part A and Part B powders are packaged separately, because they contain chemicals that react when they’re mixed up.This (like all the C-41 chemicals) comes in powder form, so that it has a long shelf life, and once you’re ready to start developing film, you mix it with water and put it in a bottle and make sure it’s all dissolved (the booklet should explain this – basically you mix the powder in while stirring at a high temperature, and then possibly leave it a while to dissolved fully). The Developer powder is what you’re going to use for your first step of developing C-41 film.I’m going to go through each of these briefly: The Stabilizer powder, packaged in a little zip-loc bag. The Blix Part B powder, packaged in a vacuum-sealed foil bag.The Blix Part A powder, packaged in a vacuum-sealed foil bag.The C-41 Developer powder, packaged in a vacuum-sealed foil bag.A short, but very clear and useful instruction booklet.When you buy the kit, what you receive is a cardboard box with a few things inside: Someone just asked me what’s in the Unicolor C-41 kit that we sell here, and it reminded me that I went to a film photography meetup recently where a couple of people asked me about that, so I thought I’d write a quick post about it:
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