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From: rwalker on 13 Feb 2010 20:43 Taking off from another thread here, does anyone have a good, understandable recipe for developing black and white film. As someone said, it's not rocket science, but some of the references I've looked at have made it seem that way. I'm tired of waiting 3-4 weeks to get my 120 format shots back, and would like to try my hand at developing black and white (to start with) myself.
From: David Nebenzahl on 13 Feb 2010 22:13 On 2/13/2010 5:43 PM rwalker spake thus: > Taking off from another thread here, does anyone have a good, > understandable recipe for developing black and white film. As someone > said, it's not rocket science, but some of the references I've looked > at have made it seem that way. I'm tired of waiting 3-4 weeks to get > my 120 format shots back, and would like to try my hand at developing > black and white (to start with) myself. What do you mean by "recipe"? I hope you don't mean a recipe for mixing your own developer. While you can do that (and I'm sure I'll catch some flak from the few die-hard mix-your-own-poison types here), you can just buy developer at the photo store (or online if you don't have one close by). The "recipe" then is basically this: 1. [optional] Pre-soak film in plain water 2. Develop film 3. [optional] Stop development with stop bath (or plain water) 4. Fix film 5. [optional] Soak film in hypo-clearing agent 6. Rinse film 7. [optional] Soak film in Photo-Flo or equivalent 8. Hang film to dry [To produce images on film, the only steps you absolutely *have* to do are 2 and 4, followed by a little 6. Like if you're in a war zone and all you can get your hands on is some developer and fixer.] That's about it. It really isn't rocket science. Several developers available. Plain old Kodak D-76 (Ilford ID-11) is available most everywhere and works well. (Probably the most important variable is how long to develop: there's a very handy reference called "The Massive Dev Chart" here: You should try it. It's fun and gives good results. -- You were wrong, and I'm man enough to admit it. - a Usenet "apology"
From: rwalker on 13 Feb 2010 23:48 On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:13:58 -0800, David Nebenzahl <nobody(a)but.us.chickens> wrote: >On 2/13/2010 5:43 PM rwalker spake thus: > >> Taking off from another thread here, does anyone have a good, >> understandable recipe for developing black and white film. As someone >> said, it's not rocket science, but some of the references I've looked >> at have made it seem that way. I'm tired of waiting 3-4 weeks to get >> my 120 format shots back, and would like to try my hand at developing >> black and white (to start with) myself. > >What do you mean by "recipe"? > >I hope you don't mean a recipe for mixing your own developer. While you >can do that (and I'm sure I'll catch some flak from the few die-hard >mix-your-own-poison types here), you can just buy developer at the photo >store (or online if you don't have one close by). > >The "recipe" then is basically this: > >1. [optional] Pre-soak film in plain water >2. Develop film >3. [optional] Stop development with stop bath (or plain water) >4. Fix film >5. [optional] Soak film in hypo-clearing agent >6. Rinse film >7. [optional] Soak film in Photo-Flo or equivalent >8. Hang film to dry > >[To produce images on film, the only steps you absolutely *have* to do >are 2 and 4, followed by a little 6. Like if you're in a war zone and >all you can get your hands on is some developer and fixer.] > >That's about it. It really isn't rocket science. Several developers >available. Plain old Kodak D-76 (Ilford ID-11) is available most >everywhere and works well. (Probably the most important variable is how >long to develop: there's a very handy reference called "The Massive Dev >Chart" here: > >You should try it. It's fun and gives good results. Thanks. I didn't literally mean "recipe" as in how to make the chemicals, but rather a straightforward explanation, such as you just provided. Thanks again.
From: Bill Graham on 14 Feb 2010 00:19 "rwalker" <rwalker(a)despammed.com> wrote in message news:u5len5177erte0k3te56o0vmcd222m72k2(a)4ax.com... > Taking off from another thread here, does anyone have a good, > understandable recipe for developing black and white film. As someone > said, it's not rocket science, but some of the references I've looked > at have made it seem that way. I'm tired of waiting 3-4 weeks to get > my 120 format shots back, and would like to try my hand at developing > black and white (to start with) myself. The only advice I can give you is that you should make sure you do not wash your developed film in water that is too hot. Keep the wash water cold, or the emulsion in the film will be ruined and all your pics will be lost. - I speak from experience, believe me.
From: David Nebenzahl on 14 Feb 2010 01:12
On 2/13/2010 9:19 PM Bill Graham spake thus: > "rwalker" <rwalker(a)despammed.com> wrote in message > news:u5len5177erte0k3te56o0vmcd222m72k2(a)4ax.com... > >> Taking off from another thread here, does anyone have a good, >> understandable recipe for developing black and white film. As someone >> said, it's not rocket science, but some of the references I've looked >> at have made it seem that way. I'm tired of waiting 3-4 weeks to get >> my 120 format shots back, and would like to try my hand at developing >> black and white (to start with) myself. > > The only advice I can give you is that you should make sure you do not wash > your developed film in water that is too hot. Keep the wash water cold, or > the emulsion in the film will be ruined and all your pics will be lost. - I > speak from experience, believe me. You must be talking about *really* hot water. Used to be, back in the photographic stone age, that one had to be very careful about wash temperatures, or about going from a cold bath to a warmer one, as the film emulsion could actually wrinkle (called "reticulation"). This is no longer the hazard it used to be, so I wouldn't sweat it too much. -- You were wrong, and I'm man enough to admit it. - a Usenet "apology" |