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No darkroom, but use a changing bag and two reel tank for B&W in XTOL, then scan the negatives and print with Epson R1800. C41 developed at local lab.

Hey Tennessee, I don't have much space either. I just spread the changing bag out on the dining room table and load the reels there, do the developing at the kitchen sink, and hang the film to dry in the shower.

I was a little intimidated by the whole process at first, but was surprized at how easy and satisfying it was after reading up on the techniques and trying it out. I only started about two months ago, but love it and got good results from the very first roll. B&W is pretty forgiving and XTOL works well for me at 1:1, it has a pretty good shelf life, it's one of the most environmently friendly chemistries from what I've read, and isn't too expensive. I'm pretty new at this so I'm sure the more experienced members can give you better advice. Reading the posts in the darkroom section of the forum taught me most everything I needed to know to get started. Thanks to all of you!
 
B&W developing / changing Bag & Bathroom.... 🙂
Scan to Disc at the Local lab
though I am seriously considering Buying a Scanner

rarely shoot color but when I do local lab
 
I develop black and white at home. I never shoot C41 anymore because there isnt a decent lab in Indiana that can do it. I send the little bit of E6 that I do out to a pro lab in Santa Fe that I used when I lived out there. The local lab here in Fort Wayne went under when I was living in New Mexico. The closes E6 lab is in Indianapolis, too far to drive, and since I don't know if they're any good and I have to mail it out anyway, I just keep using the place in Santa Fe, Visions Photo Lab.
 
b+w at home, send colour out, mainly cheap supermarket stuff. traditional wet darkroom for b+w prints, and i scan 35mm and 120 film on a flatbed scanner (light in the lid) to send/share on the internet.
 
I run all my own B&W film, my C-41 & most E6 goes to LTI in NY, the Kodachrome and occasional E6 goes to Dwaynes. I have the color films run and scanned, the C-41 gets proofed by LTI and I C-print it here.

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Black and white processing at home is fun and easy! I started out with caffenol, moved over to Diafine, ID 11 and D76.

Color negative film is developed quickly and reliably in the micro lab of a photographer in the neighborhood.
 
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All B&W at home.

Only a couple of lab's left in the country doing C41 so I'm planning to start processing my own.

Only one lab left for E6 and there machine is broken just now, should be working again in January but there quality control sucks. Planning to try this at home otherwise will send to Japan/HK/Thailand.
 
Black and white at home. Years ago I tried a few labs and was never happy with any of their B&W processing (I admit that could have had a lot to do with neophyte lack of technique and antique cameras). Once I got comfortable with HC110, and then Diafine, readjusting for a lab seemed like too much work and a lot less fun. Now I'm dabbling in R09.

One of those same labs does a great job with E6, though, and good C41.
 
I shoot 135 and 120, process B&W myself, send C41 out, use E-6 mainly for X-processing and send that out as well.

All my B&W goes in Rodinal 1:100 and I scan my stuff at home with a ScanDual IV and an old Epson 7000 Photo for the 120.

I had an M8 but hated the filters and sold it. Fully back to film and enjoying that far more.
 
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I develop black and white at home (both 35mm and 120). C-41 and E6 films gets dropped off at DM which in turn get sent to CEWE for development.

Have flirted with the idea of developing C-41 and slides at home, but never really had the heart to do it.
 
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