Sunday, July 10, 2011

My first roll of film developed at home

impression from the garage
impression from the garage,
originally uploaded by _bernd_.
I love photos produced on film. So far I've invested in old cameras and film, but I always got my pictures developed by a professional lab.
Yesterday I finally took the time to develop film at home. I spent quite a few hours taking pictures, preparing myself, and going through all the steps of developing in my kitchen. I think I developed them for too long or I agitated the film too much because the images are rather high in contrast. I also messed up the last step a bit and put the wetting agent in too early, but that didn't seem to have any effect.
I was pretty excited this morning when I got up and looked at the dry film :)
Big thanks to Ross Holmberg for his detailed instructions.