Five rolls of film processed in my last Unicolor C-41 kit were pretty much a disaster. I could not find accounts of similar problems experienced by others doing color home processing. It was depressing. I considered going to doing only black and white photography. I like the challenge of black and white, but a life without color for me seemed not worth living.
The sixth roll looked fine; in fact it seemed as good as I've ever gotten from my home color processing efforts. What made the difference was a change of film. The first five rolls were the Fuji 200 that I had used for years. The sixth roll through the C-41 kit was Kodak ColorPlus 200. My conclusion is that the batch of Fuji was defective. Fuji seems to have given up most of its film production and Fuji 200 color has been mostly unavailable for some time. It is possible that some odd lots will show up, but I'm not buying any more.
If Kodak goes the way of Fuji I suppose that I could use digital for color, but I'm hoping I won't have to resort to that.
