Tips with the C41 1K kit from Bellini

Stabilizer

The kit comes with enough stabilizer concentrate to make like 20L of the stuff. The Stabilizer is used as preservative for the dyes, and should be the last thing to hit your film. I would advise

• Mix it with deionized or demineralized water (whatever you put in a clothes iron should be fine)
• Add a wetting agent to the stabilizer I personally use Agepon because my lab stock BERGGER producs very well. Photo-Flo or the Ilford one, it does not matter. Add the recommended concentration on the packaging to your stabilizer when you mix it (Agepon is 1:500)
• After fixing, wash using the ILFORD method of doing 5, then 10, then 20 inversion with running water. But do it with water temperture in the range for the stabilizer (between 32C and 38C)
• Stabilizer should be used one shot (only use fresh one). Do the 3 minute continuous agitation. Because of the added wetting agent it may get very foamy in the top of the tank. Let the film stand in the wetting agent for like a minute then pull the reels out and shake them out to remove excess. squeegee the film with your gloves between two fingers wet with the stabilizer solution.