Recommended books for reading up on developing film yourself

[John Kasaian]

Check the links on the LF Homepage on the blue banner at the top of this page. Theres lots of good how to info there.

[Brian Schall]

Try and find a copy of Barry Thornton's ' Edge of Darkness'. I found it a fun book to read with a tremendous amount of info on taking, developing and printing B&W. You can look at his old website that is still up as a tribute to him: http://www.barrythornton.com/.

[Jeffegg2]

I do Color and Black and White.

I have a nikkor 4 reel (two 120 reels) tank that I use.

I just did two 4x5's yesterday. Easy Peasy....

I use Unicolor C41 kit from freestylephoto:



I put my 1 liter bottles of chems into an inexpensive tub of hot water:



A nice dial thermometer checks the temp (check the temp of the developer, not the tub water as
someone shows on youtube.....:



My Nikkor taped up with painters tape cause the blix is a messy process... let pressure
out after inversion:



The whole process is fairly simple, the only relatively important task is keeping the
developer at 102 degrees. A degree or two is not bad, and easy
to do cause you only spend 3.5 minutes in the developer.

I put 4x5 sheets into the nikkor tank, I think 400 bucks for a jobo is a waste of money!
two fit easily, and four can go in with hair ties around them.

Good Luck!!

[gevalia]

I don't develop color - only B&W 120 and 4x5. You might want to check YouTube.

[tpersin]

Hi NoBob- I've succesfully done C41 (very similar to JeffEgg2's method) using the Tetanal kits and used a fish tank thermometer to regulate & standardize temperature. At the risk of self-promotion, I did write a series of inexpensive laminated reference cards for various processes (10 total) including C41 that are available at both B&H and Freestyle Photo

BH: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...ICK_START.html

Freestyle:http://www.freestylephoto.biz/29511-...olor-C-41-Film



onward!