Patrick, I can't find anybody in St. George that can do the E6 processing. It's like a foreign language to these people. Do you know anybody in Salt Lake that will do it? I'm not going to freeze my rearend off in December only to have sub-standard film processing. Joe, I also have some Fuji Sensia 400 film. I found that the Kodak E200 has good red response even without the push processing. A 10-15 minute exposure will record lots of red nebulosity. I find that slides are a fun medium to show people the night sky. Debbie

From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> Date: 2004/12/01 Wed PM 02:42:02 MST To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Re: Kodak E200 processing

Over the years I've developed hundreds of rolls of E6 film and while there are times I might have said pushing was not needed or not a good idea, it would not have made sense to say it couldn't be done since pushing is just a matter of leaving the film in the chemistry longer.

So if they said they can not do it either they don't know how to push film or (maybe more likely) the clerk you were speaking to did not know what they were talking about.

Patrick

p.s. Developing E6 is not hard to do. A roll can be processed and dried in an hour or less and you have total control over pushing. The down side is cost. Part of the chemistry has a short shelf life (unlike some of my B&W chemistry that I've been known to keep around for years...) so you need to process a lot of film to make it cost effective.

astrodeb@charter.net wrote:

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I have a question about push processing E200 film. On the box of the film it says "push to 800". On my last roll of film I had developed, I asked the processing lab to push to 800. They said since I had set my ISO to 200 they couldn't do it. Am I missing something here? Or are they giving me bull****? I thought since it was 200 film I set the ISO to 200. Can somebody explain this to me or refer me to a better lab that do push processing. Any help would be appreciated. There is another comet in the sky right now and I want to do things right this time.

Debbie>

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