r/Darkroom • u/Unbuiltbread • 2d ago

Colour Film Testing E6 chems?

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Doing a leader test on my E6 chemicals. How can I tell if the developers worked vs the blix just washing away all the silver? This (areocolor) was exposed to light so the final image should just be pure white. It looks just milky white, like the blix is dead, but I know the blix is fine as I just used it for c41 and it worked fine. Should the leader be much more dense with the white dye?

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u/Mister_Anthropic1956 2d ago

A snip test needs to be done on a piece with images. If you just took a snip of film that had been fully exposed to light you aren’t going to learn much from the test. The area along the edges and sprocket holes should be black with film type and numbers visible.

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u/Unbuiltbread 2d ago

I’ll do a piece that wasn’t exposed to light and see if it turns black

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u/Ybalrid Anti-Monobath Coalition 1d ago

That will validate everything but the first developer

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u/Unbuiltbread 1d ago

From this test I know at least the first dev worked. Film turned black after being in it for a couple minutes

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u/First-Power5534 2d ago

When you say you used blix, was it a bleach fix or just a C-41 bleach? Did you also use a fixer bath?

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u/Unbuiltbread 2d ago

Blix as in bleach-fix

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u/Ybalrid Anti-Monobath Coalition 23h ago

E6 3 bath kits have blix in them