Question for all you film and dev experts

Rich, I appreciate your offer, and even though you're closer to me I'm gonna let drewbarb give it a shot since he was the first responder.

I also appreciate everyone's encouragement to develop my own film. I do indeed intend to start learning but I'll have to wait just a short while before I have a little extra cash to buy my own equipment. You know how it is...

drewbarb, I'll be pm'ing you shorty. Thanks.

Ray
 
120... Yes, me too. I use steel reels and the stuff can be quite frustrating to get started.
Wish it was made on a heavier base!
The really sad thing is that when I just can't get the roll started on the reel, it often also means I'll have creased it on one frame, you know, the little crescent shaped spots.
Anyway. I hope I'm not discouraging anyone- the first frame I got to see on paper from 120 film made me a believer.

Ray-
May your adventures in the dark come soon and prove worthwhile!
 
rich, those are beautiful examples! Maybe I should try a few rolls. HP5 is what I keep in stock, so I don't really have any 100-125 speed films on hand.
 
Since you won't have much control over development run a test roll first.
Meter for 125, then expose +1, +1/2, N, -1/2, -1 then leave a blank and do it again.
EI: 64 80 125 160 250

Then send it to develop and you can find which frames look best.

After that send the meter of your camera to whatever that is and shoot normally, the processing will take care of the rest.

Next step, which will probably save you gobs fo money is go to Freestyle and get yourself a film developing kit ;)

schrackman said:
Thanks for the info, sepiareverb. I'm gonna give that a try on the first photo. Quick question:



I don't process my own film but take it to a lab for developing (though I plan on taking a course on film development this Fall), so should I tell the lab to rate the film at ISO 80 when developing?

Ray
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titrisol said:
Next step, which will probably save you gobs fo money is go to Freestyle and get yourself a film developing kit ;)
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I went to Freestyle and found that their developing kits aren't all that expensive. This is one in particular looked appealing: http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_prod.php?cat_id=&pid=1463 but perhaps you or others might recommend another.

Ray
 
Ray

You need to find a photo shop that sells the 2nd user kit from a cardboard box, real cheap.

You will find really useful kit like tanks that take 5x film at once and bulk loaders.

Noel
 
schrackman said:
I went to Freestyle and found that their developing kits aren't all that expensive. This is one in particular looked appealing: http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_prod.php?cat_id=&pid=1463 but perhaps you or others might recommend another.

Ray
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If you're not printing, you really only need a thermometer, tank, small 100ml graduated cylinder, and larger 1L beaker. A small funnel is handy for pouring fixer back into a bottle for re-use. If you are using powder developer, you will also need a bottle for storage - I use a gallon jug similar to one of these :http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_prod.php?cat_id=1603&pid=1298

I have this tank: http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_prod.php?cat_id=1603&pid=4733
It has a spindle allowing for agitation without inversion. Nice because the red plastic top leaks a few drops every time you invert, which adds up to kind of a lot of drops by the time you are done.
 
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