Anyway, I was so mad I kept practicing rolling film on the reel blind for most of the night until I was sure I got it. I was so mad myself for screwing up that badly on the first try, and I recall I had a few good shots in the those rolls. Here’s a partially ruined one for reference, notice the white blob on the bottom left? It gets a lot worse and most the reels aren’t even flat enough to scan. The only recoverable images from 2 rolls of film is the feature image on this post, and this image of the same dog. Not only that but forcing the film into the reels resulting in the actual film being bent, scratched and damaged. Long story short my first batch was ruined because the film was wound too tight and the surfaces didn’t have space for the chems to do it’s job. Now I’d practice with dead film for a few days but it’s different in the cloth and I was a mix of anxiety, excitement and doubt. The two rolls of Fuji film I showed early…I mangled them as I was trying to roll them onto the reel. So the photos from this post are from 2 different developing sessions. If you didn’t already guess I screwed that up on the first try. Loading the reel is very tricky at first especially in the dark, it takes a lot of practice to do right especially since at no point can you actually look to confirm. So I load the canister, reel, tank and scissors into the change bag and I work by touch transferring the film into the tank. If you don’t have a darkroom all you need is a light proof change bag or tent. You don’t actually need a darkroom since only 1 step in the development process requires complete darkness, and that’s when you remove the film from it’s canister and load it onto the development reel and tank. When the kit arrived I had 2 rolls of 35mm film ready to be developed. ![]() Don’t get me wrong though I love the service and work labs like Toronto Image Works do, but this is way more than about just saving a few bucks. For $40 even if I do only get 10 rolls that’s only $4 to develop each roll, half the price of the labs around. However, if you hang out on APUG or the Flickr film pages guys are pushing it 20-30 rolls. ![]() This kit makes 1L solutions of 3 different mixes, and it’s suggested to be good for 10-12 rolls of film. Which does a great job but the solution doesn’t last as long and you can’t top it up like the liquid stuff, once it’s burned it’s burned. ![]() So my only solution is to use the powdered press kit. I’d prefer to buy liquid mix since it’s cheaper and larger in quantity, but it’s deemed hazardous and can’t be transported here. It took a few days research but I found a Canadian supplier of the very popular Jobo/Unicolor C-41 Press Kit for film development. ![]() I’ve developed about 8 rolls of film since I got the kit 2 weeks ago and I’ve screwed up at some point in each session. I don’t have the right plumbing at the studio yet so I’m using the spare washroom in my condo as a make-shift dark room.Īnyway, developing color film is surprisingly straight forward although I wouldn’t say easy. So I’ve split the equipment in two places, the enlargers and print making stuff is at the studio and the developing equipment is at my condo. I ended up finding an incredibly complete and high end dark room, it belonged to a new retired professional photographer of 50 years. About a month ago I started to seriously look into buying a darkroom, I wanted to develop my own film as well as make analog prints.
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