Kodak Professional Chemicals, Process E-6, provide consistent, high-quality results with a variety of processing methods and equipment.
When film enters the Kodak E-6 Color Developer, the reversal agent absorbed by the emulsion in the reversal bath chemically exposes the remaining silver halide.
The color developing agent then reacts with the silver halide to form metallic silver. As this metallic silver image is formed, the oxidized color developer agent reacts with the color couplers in each of the three dye layers (yellow, magenta, and cyan) of the film to form colored dyes.
The dye forms only at the sites where the image was converted to metallic silver.
Kodak E-6 Professional chemicals are ideal for processing Kodak Ektachrome, Kodak Professional Ektachrome, and Kodak Elite Chrome Films, as well as other E-6 process films produced by other manufactures.
Process E-6 requires each of the following chemicals:
- first developer,
- reversal bath,
- color developer,
- pre-bleach,
- bleach,
- fixer, and
- final rinse
The chemicals are supplied as liquid concentrates for ease of handling and mixing. Kodak Professional Chemicals, Process E-6AR, are formulated for replenishment systems with in-line dilution.
You can use the one-gallon-size individual chemical components to prepare your solutions and then reuse them up to their capacity.
The capacity of the first developer and color developer without replenishment is approximately 1.7 square meters (18 square feet) of film per 3.8 liters (1 gallon).
The capacity of the other solutions is 5 square meters (54 square feet) per 3.8 liters (1 gallon).