[Frameworks] Cinestill DF 96 Monobath

[Nicole Baker]

Hey Scott and Rob,
I just started doing hand processing and have been working with a lot of
expired film.  I often have issues with it coming out with very low
contrast, would a monobath be useful in countering that?

Nicole Elaine Baker
MFA in Visual Studies, 2019
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies
*www.magiklantern.com <http://www.magiklantern.com>*




On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 9:40 AM Rob Gawthrop <rob at robgawthrop.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks Scott, really helpful, I will be using rewind/bucket.  Got some on
> order now!
>
> Rob
>
> > On 7 Mar 2019, at 19:52, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have not but I have used other monobaths before.  They are convenient,
> > but allow no control over gamma or really any part of the characteristic
> > curve.  Most of them are inherently very compensating because the
> development
> > is limited by the fixation.  If you like that look, good.  Otherwise not
> so
> > good.
> >
> > The Air Force was very big on monobath processing for aerial film back in
> > Vietnam, because temperature and time were not very critical and for
> people
> > developing film in tents in the middle of a grassy field it reduced the
> > handling considerably and got film out to analysts faster.  Most of the
> > monobath technology we have today came out of the space program and the
> Air
> > Force.
> >
> > If you're in an environment where you can't get even processing, and I
> can
> > see a lot of folks hand-processing motion picture film by rewind or in
> > a bucket having that problem, the monobath could be a big help.  On the
> > other hand, so could a divided developer like Diafine.
> > --scott
> >
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