There are only three important variables when developing film and prints. The three are time, temperature, and agitation. As you may or may not know, when developing black and white film by hand without a processor, you change the development time based on changes in room temperature. With B/W film, a set formula (for a given chemical developer/dilution) dictates that any increase in temperature will result in a decrease in time, and vice-versa.
It is important to realize that this is not true with colour film. There is no uniform correction with respect to time and temperature, and therefore it is difficult to develop colour film consistently without a processor that controls the temperature accurately.
This is why Jobo's CPE-2 small manual processor, imported by us, is such a great tool in the darkroom. It handles these three variables effortlessly giving perfect results for black and white print or film, E6/C41 film and RA4 processing. The CPE2 Starter Kit includes all the kit you will need for film and paper processing up to 11 x 14ins.; film and paper tank, bottles, measures, thermometer, and all couplings that will really get your darkroom working efficiently.
New for 2008 is that you also get a FREE chemical lift (worth £173) in the initial price. This means you never need to get your hands wet when changing tanks and it aids the chemical pouring greatly through each process step.
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