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a darkroom log · c-41 in a bathroom, e-6 on good days

Portra 400 pushed one, and the skin tones held

2026-09-20 · roll 112

Pushed because the birthday party was indoors and the flash died. CX-2 at 38°C for the +1 time chart, agitation every 30s instead of 60. The oranges got stubborn in the shadows but everyone's faces stayed human, which is all I ever ask of Portra.

The first E-6 run didn't kill me

2026-08-29 · roll 110

Six baths, three of them temperature-critical, in a bathroom with a 2°C swing between shower-adjacent and door-shut. Reversal film on my first try came out... correct. Genuinely correct. The scanner disagreed on two frames but the film was right.

Dip-and-dunk: the poor person's rotation

2026-08-05 · technique

If your developing tank rotates on a wet counter, buy a jar lid and a rubber band. Total cost of my rotation system: the rubber band. The stripes disappeared between one roll and the next.