Developing film is easy.
You WILL get results in any case :)
To get some quality, then you need practice.
My recipe:
1) go into toilet, put tank on WC, swich off all lights nearby. get
towel to seal remaining light leaks
2) load film (i mostly develop 120 film), sometimes it takes long, if
film curls a lot
3) go to bathroom, measure +20C water by mixing cold+hot, fill 2-3
liters of water
4) fill 330ml water in glas jar, mix with 3ml rodinal (1:100), pour into
tank, mix 1 minute
5) find some marker and write down start time, semi-stand process up to
60 minutes (+10 minutes is OK), go and watch your favorite TV programm,
sometimes mix if you do not forget :)
6) discard rodinal, wash 2-3 times with water
7) take bottle with fixer, pour in, and wait 5 minutes, mixing
sometimes, then open tank lid, look if film is still "milky" wait
another 2-5 minutes. do not forget to put back fixer into bottle, do not
discard
8) mess with lot of tap water for some 10-15 minutes, to wash all chemicals
9) get bottle with distilled water as last bath for film
10) hang it for drying, wondering what you have shot, and what went wrong
Gasha
paul stenquist wrote:
On Oct 3, 2010, at 11:54 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote:
I found the opposite to be true. The bag's fabric always got in the way a bit,
and while I could load reels in the bag, I found it easier in the darkroom.
Perhaps because I learned to load reels by practicing in the light with my eyes
closed. I used an old roll of junk film. If I had trouble loading it, I'd open
my eyes to see what went wrong. After I became proficient at doing it with my
eyes closed, I went into the darkroom with exposed film and had no problems.
That was fifty years ago. To this day, I still load reels with my eyes closed,
even in the darkroom or the changing bag.
Paul
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