Developing film is easy. You need a tank, a couple spools to load film on, a couple graduated cylinders for measuring chemicals, a thermometer, squeegee and some film hangers for drying. Chemical-wise, developer (I use Rodinal and TMax Developer), stop bath and fixer are all that's required. You also need a dark closet or small room for loading the film into the tank, once loaded everything else can be done in daylight
Prints are more involved. Same chemicals(but paper developer instead of film developer), but also needed are a darkroom, developing trays, enlarger, contrast-control filters, paper, timer of some sort, darklight and a couple other minor items. As my bathroom is too small for comfortably printing, I don't bother and just scan & print digitally. -Adam Glen Tortorella wrote: > Thank you very much, Scott. I have been wanting to try developing my > own prints, but I have feared doing so. I tend to be a > perfectionist, and I fear disappointment. I do not have the > equipment, either. What would I need? It would be great to have > someone show me the correct way of doing it... > > Regards, > Glen > > On Sep 7, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Scott Loveless wrote: > >> Adam Maas wrote: >>> Glen, >>> >>> Mailers are a cheap option for getting E6 slide film processed. >>> They are not economical for B&W. For cheap processing of Fuji >>> Acros, do it yourself. I recommend Agfa or A&O Rodinal at 1:50 >>> dilution for 12 minutes at 20C, 30 seconds initial agitation with >>> 2 inversions per minute. Should run you about $0.60 or less per >>> roll (including stop & fix) if you 1-shot the dev and reuse stop & >>> fix. >>> >>> -Adam >>> >>> >>> >> I'll have to agree with Adam. For the price of having 8 or 10 >> rolls of >> B&W developed you could buy the chemicals and hardware to do it >> yourself. Rodinal is a good choice for slower film. If you're >> shooting >> at a higher ISO you might want to consider HC-110. It's a good >> general >> purpose developer. It comes in a concentrate, much like Rodinal, and >> will last a very long time. >> >> -- >> Scott Loveless >> http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
