How To Develop Film: DIY
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- Опубликовано: 16 фев 2023
- Developing film at home can be a fun and rewarding experience for any film photographer. This video is a step-by-step process for developing your film at home and a few tips along the way.
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Here's what you'll need:
Kalt Stainless Steel Developing Tank (affiliate link)
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SAMIGON STAINLESS STEEL DEVELOPING REEL(affiliate link)
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Pattersons Plastic Tank & Reels (affiliate link)
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Chemicals:
Ilford Simplicity Starter Pack (affiliate link)
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Ilford Ifosol-3 Developer (affiliate link)
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Ilford Ilfostop Stop Film Bath (affiliate link)
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Ilford Rapid fixer (affiliate link)
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Dark Bag (affiliate link)
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Darkroom Film Negative Drying Hanging Rack Frame Foldable Hanger
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Digital Thermometer (affiliate link)
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Gear Used In This Video:
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SONY a7 III Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera (affiliate link)
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Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.2 (affiliate link)
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Archival 35mm Negative Pages (affiliate link)
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Adorama Plastic Negative Storage Binder Box (affiliate link)
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Camera Compressed Air Blower, Camera Dust (affiliate link)
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ILFORD Antistatic Cloths (affiliate link)
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Aputure Amaran 200x Bi-Color 2700-6500k LED Video Light (affiliate link)
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Nanlite Forza 60 LED Monolight (affiliate link)
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Manfrotto Element Lightweight Aluminium Tripod (affiliate link)
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Film Scanners:
Epson Perfection V850 Scanner (affiliate link)
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Epson Perfection V600 Photo- (alternative) (affiliate link)
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Sennheiser Professional MKE 600 Shotgun Microphone (affiliate link)
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Ilford Simplicity Starter Pack (affiliate link)
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Photoflex Film Changing Room (affiliate link)
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HODA Darkroom Film Changing Bag- (alternative) (affiliate link)
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eTone 35mm Film Cassette Cartridge Opener (affiliate link)
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Kalt Stainless Steel 35mm (x2) Developing Tank (affiliate link)
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Samigon Stainless Steel Developing Reel 35MM FILM (affiliate link)
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Developing Tank Alternative-
Paterson Universal tank and 2 reels (affiliate link)
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Tip: Use a film leader retrieval tool instead of the can opener. You can easily retrieve the leader and trim it square in daylight, outside of the tent/bag. This also saves the canisters if you ever want to bulk load. Cheers
Understanding that this video is aimed at beginners, some observations:
1. A changing tent is a big ticket item. It is convenient, but hardly necessary. A changing bag costs 30% as much, and a dark closet or bathroom is free.
2. The Simplicity chemical kit from Ilford is convenient if just starting, but it just packages tiny portions of Ilford's regular chemicals. You pay about four times as much per roll as just buying the same chemicals separately, if you decide you like doing this, ditch it fast and buy the real stuff.
3. Film reel loading. If your camera can leave the film tongue out at rewind, or you retrieve the tongue from the cartridge with a tool, you can clip it and attach the film lead to the reel in the light, then put the reel/film cartridge in your dark bag to load the reel. Far more convenient to do. Attaching film to a steel reel in the dark, in my 60 years of experience, is the most hateful part of this process.
4. Pre-wash is Pointless. You warm or cool your developer to process temperature, which is usually within a few degrees of room temperature. The only legitimate function of a pre-wash is to significantly change the film and tank temperature from room temp to process temp, which is not necessary for B&W processing. Ilford officially recommends not pre-washing their film. So why do people persist in recommending a useless act? Because if you do not pre-wash, the anti-halation dye in the emulsion comes out in the developer and makes it look "Icky", if you save and reuse your developer. (I don't, and neither should you.) It doesn't help at all. It doesn't hurt much, just adding an extra step to the processing and extending "wet time" for the film, which is a minor negative.
5. A water bath between developer and stop bath. Bad Idea! I've never heard of this one before, and hopefully never will again. The whole idea of using a stop bath is to stop development. (It also protects the fixer, a separate discussion). A water bath will dilute and slow development, but it does not stop it. Further, the stop bath does not need protecting from the developer. The only thing using this water bath will do is extend your development somewhat and overdevelop your film a bit, returning no benefit for its use.
6. Fixing time. There are "normal" and "rapid" fixers. Most fixers you'll find today are of the "rapid" sort. In a rapid fixer, conventional films (not T-grain types like TMax and Delta) normally require no more than 4 minutes of fixing, while T-grain films may require 8-10 minutes. Excessive time in rapid fixer can damage the film image, so check the fixer instructions and use the times recommended, no more. So, 8 minutes for HP-%+ in Ilfofix is a regrettable idea. Testing older fixer: Use her idea of dropping a film scrap in fixer to see if it clears, but time it to find out how long that takes. Then, when you use the fixer again, use a time which is double the time it took the film to clear in your test.
7. Washing. Keep the temperature of the wash water around 70 degrees F. If it drops below 60 degrees, it gets so ineffective that you make as well not bother. If you let it get over 80 Degrees, you may wash the emulsion off the film base, or "reticulate" the image. Running tap water into the open tank containing reels (shown here) is quite inefficient. Better practice and more water economical is to attach a piece of tubing which flushes water down the center of the reel, then up over the film surfaces and out over the top edge of the tank. Kodak recommends 20 minutes washing, not 10, but with so many videos just flushing the tank under the tap for a few seconds and then pulling the film to dry, references on YT are pretty degraded now.
8. Wetting agent use. Do not use stronger mix than specified, and half strength usually works s well. This will avoid scumming up your reel (hello, Paterson?) If you live with "hard" water, containing lots of dissolved calcium compounds, then mix with distilled water to prevent those deposits drying on your film.
Notwithstanding my comments, this is a pretty good video, with a number of points and ideas omitted from other videos of this sort.
Great tutorial! I recently bought a couple film cameras, but have not developed film since I was in H.S. (Long, long, time ago 😂) Film development is not how it used to be, cheap! Cost have really sky-rocked. My intention is to develop film at home and print them of my own scanner. Thank you for such an informative video!
I'm sorry for being super late but work drains my soul sometimes. Thank you for the tutorial Tilly and side note your nail game is next level 💕
This brings back so many memories! Back in the day I used to use the blunt side of the scissors to pop the film cannister end. Just hold the blade flat along side of the canister and twist. Fuji slide film was always a tight donut though. 😊
Excellent video Tilly. Even I understand. Safety glasses please. Splash injuries to your face and eyes are real!!
Cool vid
Those changing tents are awesome. So much better than those cheap T-shirt shaped changing bags. My hands would get so sweaty in those. And it keeps collapsing on you. Yeah, those were terrible.
If you are just starting and unsure whether you want to do this, know that the "tent" is around $100, becoming both the most expensive and unnecessary accessory. Just go in a bathroom or closet and turn off the light, or use a regular changing bag for $25-30.
Great how - to video 👍
Keep the videos coming please 😁
Great video! Really interesting
This was great. Thank you. Hope the tour is lots of fun and you get some great shots.
I absolutely LOVE your videos and appreciate your tutorials! They are clear, easy to understand and make me feel confident to try this - thank you! ❤️🎉📸
Your video is SO well explained! Thank you so much for the help
Great video Tilly!
So, do we need to do any of this in the dark?😊
Seriously though, one of the many hobbies my dad had in his life was photography and developing and printing his shots. This brought back some happy memories of watching him work on the developing (I was probably 8 or so, so maybe 45 years ago). He even got me going with the contact printer while he worked with enlarger, but I ran my prints through the same chemicals.
In the dark. Never forget, in the dark. Always the dark. 🫣
great video!
Is it possible to develop color photos at home?
Absolutely! Process is much more reliant on temperature, but totally doable.
a good how to. Why film vs digital?
I feel like shooting film creates a space where you get to be intentional about what your shooting. You can’t double check and readjust. So it pushes you to learn where the boundaries are.
@Tilly Shull just curious it does force thoughtful shooting important in the creative process