How to Develop Color Positive Film (E6 Process)

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[Music]
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there they are that's awesome okay
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what's going on everybody we're back
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with another film development tutorial
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and today I'm gonna be going over the e6
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process for developing color positive
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film in this tutorial I'm gonna be using
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some sound from my old archive bags
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these are just some bags of film that I
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never developed because I didn't have my
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time money or I just didn't have the
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right chemicals for it for this one I
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have two rolls of Fuji Belleville 100
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that I shot in about July 2018 and at
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the time I just never had these six
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chemicals I actually cross processed one
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of the roles that I started on with my
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c41 process that's linked in the
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description but I never got to try out
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actually doing the color positive don't
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process so today we're gonna be going
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over that with these two old rolls that
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I shot so let's just go ahead and get
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into the materials on in this tutorial
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I'm going to be using the Arista rapid
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East six color positive film process
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I'll put a picture up here of the one
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that I actually thought I think I got it
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from freestyle photo calm around $30 for
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a one quart mixture and it comes in
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liquid tubes and basically what you do
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is you get your water set to a specific
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temperature and then you pour in your
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chemicals while mixing it and
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I pour each three into these amber glass
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bottles so the first step is going to be
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developer the next step is going to be
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color developer and then the final step
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is going to be blessed with washes all
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in between each step and at the start
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finish and the main thing for students
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of color for developing color positive
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film is that you're going to want to
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make sure your temperatures are really
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on point or else you're going to get
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kind of a skewed color scheme the next
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thing you're gonna need is a Paterson
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developing tank which comes with the
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agitation stick a light type lid and
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also the the two film reels today we're
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going to be developing 35 millimeter
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film so we'll use these two if you want
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to develop 120 film you're gonna go
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ahead and just bring this apart and set
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it to a medium format sizing I'm like I
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said today we're gonna go ahead and do
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35 millimeter film so let's go ahead and
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film ready um two other things that
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you're going to want to have just to
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make things easier are your thermometer
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and also a squeegee for film the drying
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film up at the end and also some
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optional things as well our gloves and a
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rag as
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as a funnel to get the chemicals back in
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so like I said to start we're gonna do
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we're gonna need to make sure
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everything's at the right temperature
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I'm gonna be using a developing process
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where everything is set to 105 degrees
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Fahrenheit so what I'll do to start is
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just put my sink on as high as it can go
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temperature wise and then just let these
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heat up until they're at around 105
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maybe even a hundred and ten for these
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these two since they're at the end of
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the process so let's go ahead and heat
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the chemicals up B just following a risk
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the company that's producing these
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chemicals I'm gonna just follow their
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process and for this steps that are at
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all 105 degrees Fahrenheit just to make
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it as quick as possible
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so here's I just wrote it out to make it
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a little bit easier the first step is
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gonna be to wash for 60 seconds at 105
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degrees Fahrenheit
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the next step is gonna be the developer
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one with inversion cycles every 30
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seconds and that's going to be for a
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total of six and a half minutes and then
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after that we're gonna dump it back into
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the the original chemical bottle that it
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was in and then I'm gonna wash the film
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out again with water at 105 degrees
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Fahrenheit and I'm gonna wash it out not
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too fast but I'm gonna try and just put
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water in it dump it out put water in it
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dump it out
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in a relatively quick manner just to get
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all the old chemicals out of there I'm
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gonna do that about seven to ten times
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the next step is going to be the color
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developer which goes on for four and a
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half minutes and you're gonna have the
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same inversion cycles which I'll show
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you while I'm doing the process every 30
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seconds after that you're gonna wash it
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out with the same process of seven to
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ten dump cycles and then you're gonna
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put your Blix in again 105 degrees
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Fahrenheit for 10 minutes and you're
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gonna do those same inversion cycles
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once you're done with that blips you can
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wash the film out for about 5-10 minutes
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it doesn't really matter exactly how
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long you do it you want to just make
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sure all the chemicals are out and then
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once everything's out we'll go ahead and
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take a look at the film see what it
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looks like and then hang it dry so I'm
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gonna just go ahead and put my process
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down over here and then let's go ahead
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and start
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[Music]
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alright so I'm gonna go put my film on
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the reels in my bathroom just turn off
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all the lights make sure there's no
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light coming in put them on the reels
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and then I'll meet you back here to
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actually start the process
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[Music]
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so we have our film inside of the
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Paterson tank now and I'm just gonna go
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ahead and make sure that the film is all
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at the right temperature and if it is
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I'll go ahead and get started with the
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first watch again we're looking for that
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105 degree fahrenheit range a few more a
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few less that's okay but anything more
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than five degrees off and might see some
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color variations
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[Music]
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it's only 275 right now so it's gonna be
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a little long
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all right so right now the thermometers
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and the first developer and I might
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about a hundred degrees Fahrenheit which
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means and it's been climbing so it's
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about to be at the temperature we're
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looking for for so for now I'm gonna go
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ahead and get the water heated up to
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about 105 as well just to get started
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for the first walk all right so the
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water is a 105 now it looks like it
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might feel a little hot though
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[Music]
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so I'm gonna get out my phone for the
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timer and go ahead and hit stopwatch and
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if you hit stopwatch on the clock
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tapping on iPhones and then slide to the
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right you have a better trying to stop
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water so the water is at 105 now so I'm
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gonna go ahead and put the film under
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and I'll start the timer right now once
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it's full start it now
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and we'll go for one minute
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[Music]
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go ahead and turn the water off just let
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it soak a little bit not too
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[Music]
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so I usually let the water run for about
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30 seconds and then I just let it soak
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for the next 30 seconds while I keep an
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eye on the temperature of the film the
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chemicals spread so we're about at 45
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seconds and the first developer looks
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like you said it get enough temperature
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so I'm going to go ahead and put my
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gloves on
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all right so go ahead and dump out the
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water and you're gonna see kind of a
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attented color that's if you leave your
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water running the whole time it should
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look like regular water but if you don't
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then it's gonna look like a lot kind of
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like bluish purple color so as you can
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see this is my first developer I'm gonna
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go ahead and shake it up a little bit
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and this is gonna be for six and a half
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minutes so I'm gonna be ending I'm
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starting at one and a half so I'll be
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ending at about eight minutes I'll go a
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little bit later since it's gonna take
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me about 15 seconds to actually flip the
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chemicals in
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I saw something aside and then I'm gonna
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just use the agitation stick for about
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15 seconds at the start and then from
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there so now I'm in about two minutes
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and I have about six full minutes left
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and I'm gonna be doing my inversion
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cycles like I had mentioned every 30
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seconds so I'll show you what that looks
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like in just a minute
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so put the lid on just to make sure
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nothing gets spilled out or anything
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like that and then I usually get my
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funnel so I know exactly which bottle to
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put the chemicals back in so I'm at the
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two minute and thirty mark and I'm gonna
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go ahead and just do some inversion
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cycles like this nothing too speedy just
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flipping the container over while I'm
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rolling it a little bit so that the
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films the chemicals spread all over the
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film so I'm going to do just about three
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maybe four or five every 30 seconds and
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then once I'm done I just hit it just to
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tap all the film the chemicals off the
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film and get a reset and then let this
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go for another thirty seconds and then
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I'll do that again I also like to make
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sure that my other two chemicals are
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staying at 105 degrees Fahrenheit and
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and right now I'm just assuming that
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they're starting to cool down a little
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bit they might be getting towards 90
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degrees Fahrenheit so I'm gonna just
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reset the water and then I'll reheat the
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chemicals to make sure they stay at 105
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degrees the whole time so this is at 30
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seconds again I'm going to go ahead and
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do the inversion cycles
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just let that water run just so that it
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can heat up and then I'll throw the
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bucket up
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you tap the gun one thing I didn't
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mention at the beginning of the video is
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that for color positive film with this
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specific usage process for your first
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developer you're gonna want to add 30
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seconds every two rolls that you develop
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so I've only used this specific batch
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one other time so I'm actually gonna add
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30 seconds to this process just because
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I've used it for two rolls already so
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just make sure you keep that in mind or
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else it might affect the color for the
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developing time so it's at 30 seconds
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again I'll go ahead and give it another
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inversion cycle
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[Music]
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all right so we're rounding eight
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minutes now and I'm gonna go ahead and
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do my I might do one inversion cycle
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after this book I'm gonna let it sit for
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an extra 15 to 30 seconds since the
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chemicals have been used before and then
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I'm gonna dump them out let's just make
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sure that the water is at 105 go for our
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wash
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so I'll do like a little baby inversion
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of birth mom letting that water heat up
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so I'm gonna go ahead and dump the
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developer the first developer back in
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[Music]
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all right so go ahead and wash off your
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other anything that was touching the
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first developer you don't want any
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cross-contamination and then I would
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just go ahead and set that first bottle
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aside just to get it out of the way so
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the next step is gonna be the loss like
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I said it's that the water is at about
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100 degrees now so I'm gonna go ahead
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and start that like I had said in the
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beginning you're gonna want to just fill
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the water fill the container up with
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water about seven times and just dump it
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out make sure all the the old developer
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is just out of the container because you
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don't want any of that in there when you
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dump your next developer end
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so you see it takes a little while to
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get off its gonna make sure it's at the
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right temperature and the next step is
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going to be the color developer so just
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get that bottle ready make sure you have
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the right one
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don't don't confuse the two bottles
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that's a big problem and I've done that
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before you don't want to deal with that
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so this is still at 105 so that's
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looking good the next step is going to
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be four and a half minutes and for the
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color developer and for the Flex it
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doesn't matter how many times you've
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used it you don't have to change the the
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time the length of the time for any of
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those two chemicals so that's not a
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convenient so that's about good for the
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wash let's go ahead and shake the
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chemical or the color developer just to
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make sure everything spread around and
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then take a look at your timer just to
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see what four and a half minutes will be
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from that point I'm starting at about
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eleven minutes now so I'll go until
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fifteen and a half minutes maybe sixteen
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minutes depending no I'll go until
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fifteen and a half minutes based off
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this Sun this time that I'm using right
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now so again I'll use the agitation
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stick I'm gonna wash that off just to
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make sure use the agitation stick for
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the first 57 seconds just to spread the
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chemicals all around
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then wash that off wash everything else
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off you know how to put the funnel into
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the whatever bottle is gonna be getting
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the chemicals back into it that's what I
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always put the funnel back into just so
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I know you never want to confuse the
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bottles and pour chemicals into one of
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the other ones because then they're just
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a waste so now that the color developers
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in we're going to do this for four and a
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half minutes and we're going to use
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those same inversion cycles for this
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process together
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[Music]
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all right I met 14 in the 14 minutes in
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about 50 seconds right now I'm gonna do
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my last inversion cycle before the color
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developer and then I'm gonna pour the
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chemicals back into the amber glass
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bottle and then I'll do my wash so let's
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just wrap this up and then I'll rinse
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this off real quick let's go ahead and
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get the water set to 105 again so that
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it's ready for when you need to wash it
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out
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[Music]
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we're almost at 15:30 now
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[Music]
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all right so we're a 15:30 let's go
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ahead and dump that back
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are you covered make sure all that stuff
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and then let's just go ahead and start
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walking it if it's at the right
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temperature not feels like it is if my
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thermometer so I'm gonna go ahead and
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start walking you know just get it you
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know
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[Music]
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yeah I said about 100 degrees right now
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I think it's climbing to 105 let's just
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get all the color developer out doesn't
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look like there's any more color develop
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in there
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developer in there I'm gonna do one last
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rinse out and then we'll put the Flex in
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which is going to go for even 10 minutes
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every single time let's just wash this
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off one last run before we start alright
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so looks like we're set
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let's go ahead and shake up the blix my
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timers at 17 and a half minutes so I'm
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gonna do 10 minutes starting at 18
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minutes so that'll end me at 28 minutes
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flat on my timer
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all right and I like to do the same
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process with blitz first 15 seconds with
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an agitation stick the manual doesn't
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really say to do that but I kind of just
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stay consistent with 15 seconds of
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agitation for all my film developing
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processes I think it does a better job
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spreading all the chemicals out right
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when you pour them into the powder some
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think it's going to put the lid on and
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then we'll do our inversion cycles every
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30 seconds finally almost done and the
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best part about each six color positive
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film processing is that you're gonna get
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to see the photos right after right when
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you take to take them out of the bucket
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we don't have to wait until we go scan
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them or anything like that
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so that's always like a super super
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rewarding process and kind of super
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rewarding feeling
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[Music]
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but with the blips I'm gonna go ahead
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and dump it out and then I'm gonna wash
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for five minutes just leave the water
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running for five minutes straight at the
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same 105 degrees Fahrenheit that's just
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to get anything that's left in the
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Patterson tank out so that when you go
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to scan you're gonna have nice clean
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clean negative or positive traffic so
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I'll go ahead and leave the timer on
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until about 32 minutes wash everything
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off in the meanwhile
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this is a good time to just put
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everything else up because you're just
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gonna leave the water on anyway and then
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go ahead and also get your squeegee
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ready just to run this five minutes is
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up that's when we get to see the photos
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finally a little bit well they get into
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another minute and then I'll check it
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and then after that is the moment of
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truth
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[Music]
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Brett 32 minutes that's close enough and
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I'm ready so let's just go ahead and
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take a look I'm gonna just dump the
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water out there they are that's awesome
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you can see all of them right there as
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color positives you can see the
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difference they're not like color
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negatives where it's a red tone and you
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can't see anything that's awesome
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let's go ahead and squeegee this off you
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could use all different types of color
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tones in this where you get some light
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behind it as well even got a selfie in
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there right there that's awesome some
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photos at the beach
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okay let's hang this dry and then we'll
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take a look at the Nashville oh well
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these are looking cool and some light
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leaks and some burns on this Rolla - I
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don't know I don't remember exactly what
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I was shooting at the time but this
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looks pretty cool maybe it got exposed
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there's some porches here yeah it looks
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like the camera got a little bit exposed
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right here and then at the bottom
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there's some there's some better
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exposures looks like in the city before
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coronavirus alright let's go ahead and
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hang these dry
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[Music]
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all right so I just finished up my East
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set developing process the film is in
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the bathroom hanging up dry right now
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I'm gonna go ahead and just wrap this up
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here and then I'll show some of the
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scans once I'm done but I hope you
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enjoyed the film process if you have any
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questions feel free to leave a comment
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below or reach out to me on instagram at
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matt underscore Moloney I hope you
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enjoyed and peace out
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