Comments on: how to develop black and white film–its super easy, don’t not do it ‘cos you think its hard http://blog.jonmadison.com/archives/2007/08/13/develop/ Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: jon http://blog.jonmadison.com/archives/2007/08/13/develop/comment-page-1/#comment-39711 jon Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:05:21 +0000 http://blog.isaidjon.com/archives/2007/08/13/how-to-develop-black-and-white-film-its-super-easy-dont-not-do-it-cos-you-think-its-hard/#comment-39711 i think most people haven't tried, 'cos they (like i had) tend to lump developing and printing together. printing takes an enlarger and a running water source (unless you want to do contact printing, in which case, from what i've read is pretty easy, but i haven't gotten myself around to doing it yet). it's not hard; at worst its inconvenient. you gotta mix the chemicals, and find a place to store your chemicals, is the extent of my troubles...oh, well, i also have to make sure there's not a bunch of other crap in the sink when i want to develop (don't tell anyone but i use the kitchen sink, which gareth was pretty adamant about not using...he used the bathroom instead :) if you use diafine, you'll mix two jugs of solution, then never deal with it again (seriously, diafine lasts *forever*). and it's super easy to remember--3 minutes A, 3 minutes B. and even from what i've been reading, you can shorten the B developer time to make sure it doesn't push as much! why doesn't the world use diafine? well...personal preference...but i'm not a pro, so i can't tell many of the nuances after i've developed, and tweaked them during the scanning process anyway :) oh, and diafine just gets kinda gross after a while, too (but trust me, it's still working:) oh, and check "dev" below, under possibly related posts. it shows a picture of all the stuff i used for my first batch. j. i think most people haven’t tried, ‘cos they (like i had) tend to lump developing and printing together. printing takes an enlarger and a running water source (unless you want to do contact printing, in which case, from what i’ve read is pretty easy, but i haven’t gotten myself around to doing it yet).

it’s not hard; at worst its inconvenient. you gotta mix the chemicals, and find a place to store your chemicals, is the extent of my troubles…oh, well, i also have to make sure there’s not a bunch of other crap in the sink when i want to develop (don’t tell anyone but i use the kitchen sink, which gareth was pretty adamant about not using…he used the bathroom instead :)

if you use diafine, you’ll mix two jugs of solution, then never deal with it again (seriously, diafine lasts *forever*). and it’s super easy to remember–3 minutes A, 3 minutes B. and even from what i’ve been reading, you can shorten the B developer time to make sure it doesn’t push as much! why doesn’t the world use diafine? well…personal preference…but i’m not a pro, so i can’t tell many of the nuances after i’ve developed, and tweaked them during the scanning process anyway :)

oh, and diafine just gets kinda gross after a while, too (but trust me, it’s still working:)

oh, and check “dev” below, under possibly related posts. it shows a picture of all the stuff i used for my first batch.

j.

]]> By: kristyk http://blog.jonmadison.com/archives/2007/08/13/develop/comment-page-1/#comment-39710 kristyk Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:01:00 +0000 http://blog.isaidjon.com/archives/2007/08/13/how-to-develop-black-and-white-film-its-super-easy-dont-not-do-it-cos-you-think-its-hard/#comment-39710 thanks for this I still haven't tried, because I think it's hard! thanks for this

I still haven’t tried, because I think it’s hard!

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