- Film tank
- Changing bag
- Developer
- Stop bath (optional)
- Fixer
- Hypo-clear
- Hypo-check
- Bottle opener
- Safety scissors
- Bottles
- 3 of them that are > 20oz
- Measuring cups
- Funnels
- Clips for hanging film to dry
- Practice roll of film ($2 or $3)
- Drying rack
- Squeegie
- Practice loading film in tank.
- Out in the open
- Open cheap roll of film with a can opener.
- Trim the leader off the film without looking.
- “As straight as you can—preferably between the sprockets.”
- Get comfortable loading the film on the reel with your eyes open.
- Get comfortable loading the film on the reel with your eyes closed.
- In the changing bag — part 1
- Put the film and the reel in the changing bag.
- Load film on the reel.
- In the changing bag — part 2
- Put everything (the film, reel, canister, and can opener) in the changing bag.
- Load the film on the reel.
- Cut the spool off.
- Put both reels in the tank and close it up.
- Out in the open
- Prepare chemicals (other than the developer)
- Dilute stop bath
- 1+63ish
- ~ 10mL + water up to 20oz
- Dilute fixer
- 1+4
- 5oz fixer + 15oz water
- Put hypo clear into an eyedropper bottle.
- Calculate how to mix the developer.
- Find the right ratio for your developer and film.
- Find the size of your developing tank.
- Determine your mixture by calculating it based on the total volume of your tank.
- Example: 20oz tank, developer needs to be 1+9
- 2oz developer + 18oz water
- Dilute stop bath
Note: developer is only used once per batch and then poured down the drain.
- Dilute your developer into a bottle.
- Mix with tap water that’s the right temperature based on the chart.
- Developer
- Agitate continuously for the first minute.
- Agitate for 5 seconds every 30 seconds
- Stop bath
- Continuously agitate for 30 seconds and you’re done.
- Fixer
- 4 minutes total.
- Agitate continuously for the first minute.
- Agitate for 5 seconds every 30 seconds until you’re done.
- Rinse in running water for ~10 minutes
- Put a couple of drops of hypo clear in the tank and agitate continuously for ~1min.
- Pull out the film, squeegie it, and hang it to dry an hour or two.