I'm starting to panic

[Don_ih]

EVery time someone changes their smartphone they are tosing several hundred Euro worth of camera gear into the bin.

Not really. It's a multi-purpose device. That your house has a refrigerator in it does not make your house a refrigerator. That your car has a radio in it does not make your car a radio.

And the actual camera unit on the back of your average phone costs about $25 to replace (part - not labour).

You can still use the camera functionality of a phone that is no longer being used for anything else. If you throw it in the garbage, that's your choice.

But would you throw a Sony a6000 in the garbage if you bought one of those new Sigma BF cameras? Would you throw away a Nikon F2 if you got a Nikon f3?

 

[pentaxuser]

It's pretty good, but not as good as their amazing vintage 2 stroke engine mopeds!

Nice one I was almost on the point of saying "Yes, that's where I heard the word Bellini before when I realised I was mixing up the order of the "lls and "nns" in the two names

pentaxuser

 

[STR1015]

No, I home-mix ECN2 developer and use C41 bleach & fix.

That’s cool. I’ve never tried that cuz it’s hard to find CD3

 

[STR1015]

It's pretty good, but not as good as their amazing vintage 2 stroke engine mopeds!

Or their M4 tactical shotgun… funny typo lol

 

[koraks]

That’s cool. I’ve never tried that cuz it’s hard to find CD3

Check eBay. In addition there are a few retailers that carry it. It's pretty easy to obtain these days; much more so than 5 years ago.

 

[destroya]

That’s cool. I’ve never tried that cuz it’s hard to find CD3

have you tried artcraft?

CD-3 (Part#: 1090)

USA ground ship only. ORM-D--100 grams

artcraftchemicals.com

 

[Daniel Stuefer]

Yeah, something like that, but the crossover is a problem. In practice, ECN2 developer for 3:30 to 3:45 at 41C works well for wet printing on today's papers.

Noted this down to try when I get to it. I suppose this is for fresh chemicals (which would normally have 3:00 dev time at 41C)?
And have you tried if all four vision3 stocks give satisfying results with this when printed optically?

 

[koraks]

I suppose this is for fresh chemicals (which would normally have 3:00 dev time at 41C)?

Yes, that's correct!

And have you tried if all four vision3 stocks give satisfying results with this when printed optically?

I've so far printed from 250D, 50D and 500T, but mostly 250D by far. The 50D and 500T I used in an earlier phase of testing with ECN2 and I wasn't so happy with the results back then; I ran into some blue/yellow crossover issues. To date, I don't know what caused those; I only know they didn't appear when I revisited the ECN2 thing with 250D. But I don't think there's anything magically different between these films that could explain the problems I had back then; it must have been a parameter in my process somewhere. I'd have to dig up some of those old negatives and try printing them again to see if maybe the problem was related more to the printing than the film development part of the process, IDK really.

I plan on trying some more 50D pretty soon.