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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-02-2008, 10:46 AM
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Craiglist is quite good, I got a full darkroom for less than $50
BUT chemicals, is best to buy new
Normally used stuff is not bad, I'd be more worried about metal developing reels than plastic since those can be bent out of shpae.
If you buy either washing them thoroughly is a good idesa, plastic reels can be wahsed with baking soda and the mom-in-law toothbrush. With only a few drops of water to make a paste and then let it stand for a few minutes
As per chemicals it is always good to keep a sequence, fix before developer happens many-a-times ;) It is not a disaster... it is a character-building-experience
PS. depending on how many time you use your fixer it maybe safe to dump it down the drain. I prefer to use it less times so that there is little silver in there
Otherwise use jerry cans to collect your fixer, and put steel wool at the bottom. Then the Ag will stick to the iron and you can drain the liquid and take the sludge to a facility
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-01-2008, 12:36 AM
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1. paterson tanks are good, but Freestyle brand/KALT/BESSELER spirals are the way to go. They have a wider "lip"to start with the film and that for 120 is a blessing. I guess JOBO are similar.
I have never been able to go with stainless spirals but I'm just a weirdo.
2. Caffenol is a funky developer tha works just for fun, in 2004 Donald Qualls, your truly and several other in photo net and APUG did many improvements and research.
Check in Donald's webpage for more instructions, suggestions and funky stuff
gee we have hijacked this thread into a development one hope it is OK:cool:
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-31-2008, 07:21 AM
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ILFORD has the following topics:
* Thinking in Black & White
* Getting Started
* Taking Pictures in Black & White
* Developing Black & White Films
* The Negative
* Printing in Black & White
and datasheets here:
PRODUCT PAGE
I have the Kodak PDFs if you want them send me a pm and I'll email
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-31-2008, 05:35 AM
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I do not squeeze the film, I use a salad spinner to centrifuge most of the water out :lol:
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-31-2008, 12:20 AM
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The kitchen sink is a great place to develop film, the first step that nees to be carried out in total darkenss, or in a changing bag is loading the film into the spirals of the developing tank.
I prefer to do this in a dark closet (or lately in the "under-the-stairs" pantry).
Then in the kitchen sink
1. Prepare your chemicals (follow instructions), is you have to dilute a liquid concentrate first check that the water temperature is fine, then add the concentrate.
2. Fill your dev tank with enough developer. Start the clock
3. Agitate and then Tap the bottom of your tank to dislodge air bubbles
4. Agitate in the intervals suggested (1 prefer to do it once/minute but most people do it twice/minute)
5. When dev time is about to end (20-30 seconds before) dump the developer
6. Fill the tank with stop bath / water agitate vigorously and dump
7. Fill the tank with fixer, agitate and start the fix-clock
8. Dump the fixer
9. Fill tank with water, agitate and dump
10. Fill tank with water, agitate for 30sec and dump
11. Fill tank with water, agitate for 30 sec, wait 1 minute, agitate and dump
12. Fill tank with water, agitate for 30 sec, wait 5 minutes, agitate and dump (Repeat once)
13. Open the top, use distilled water or water with LFN/Phtoflo and cover the film
14. Hang the film to dry.
If you have nothing to develop film check freestyle, they have an "all-in" kit for about $50 that includes dev tank, mixing stuff, thermometer and even chemicals to start with.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-30-2008, 08:14 AM
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Fuji used to have a PRO-800 film
it was excellent but above 400 gave nice even grain
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