First Roll of Film Developed!

[dave lackey]

Ah...just reporting in from my forced sabbatical...

This week, went to the darkroom at the Serenbe Photography Center and Stephen walked me through my first roll of Arista Premium 400 developing... from the Leica R4 + 50 Cron.

Negatives look great! Will pick up my scans locally at lunch.:angel:

Next up is two rolls of the same film next week. Followed by another couple of rolls of different brand and ISO but the budget will not allow that until sometime in October.

If the scans turn out as well as I think they will. I will turn to developing my own at home and start saving for a scanner. Maybe get one in six months or so.🙄

Back to work....

 

[oftheherd]

I still remember going to the Army Craft Shop in Korea and having one of the instructors there teach me developing and printing. It's been fun ever since, when I have time to do it.

 

[Tom hicks]

Congrats Dave , if you reacted like I did after seeing the negs for the first time , aside from saying, (that's so cool ) and (it's so easy), or (that's all there is to it ), why did I put it off so long. And Dave, Color film is even easier.

Tom

 

[Godfrey]

Ah...just reporting in from my forced sabbatical...

This week, went to the darkroom at the Serenbe Photography Center and Stephen walked me through my first roll of Arista Premium 400 developing... from the Leica R3 + 50 Cron.

Negatives look great! Will pick up my scans locally at lunch.:angel:

Next up is two rolls of the same film next week. Followed by another couple of rolls of different brand and ISO but the budget will not allow that until sometime in October.

If the scans turn out as well as I think they will. I will turn to developing my own at home and start saving for a scanner. Maybe get one in six months or so.🙄

Back to work....

I hope it does the business for you, Dave.

Just had my first roll of XP2 from the CL processed yesterday, spent last evening scanning them. I do love this camera.

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[jcrutcher]

Congrats Dave! Welcome back.

Jim

 

[johannielscom]

Looking forward to seeing those scans, Dave!

 

[zauhar]

Dave, look in your local craigslist, you will likely find someone selling their darkroom setup for a song. You can probably score an enlarger too, if you have somewhere to put it.

Glad that your first efforts panned out!

Randy

 

[gb hill]

Congrats Dave. Epson has some great deals on film scanners.

 

[zauhar]

Congrats Dave. Epson has some great deals on film scanners.

+1 on the suggestion for Epson. At least one of the their models has a holder for four filmstrips (24 exp). Sounds like not a big deal, but my Canon takes only 12 frames at a time, and given the time needed for a good scan that is not much "batch" processing.

I am spending too much time on scanning now, need a better workflow. ;-(

Randy

 

[dave lackey]

Ahh...thanks, guys. Just picked up the scans of the first roll from the Ciro-flex and despite completely blowing 5 frames 🙄 (film advance issues, me not the camera), I have four decent images including one double exposure.

Will try to get those processed and posted soon.

 

[paulfish4570]

happy birthday, dave.

 

[dave lackey]

happy birthday, dave.

Thank you, Paul....it is much appreciated. It has been a depressing day.., such words are golden.🙂

So, without further ado... here are my first developed images from the Ciro-flex TLR, not bad for a trial session. Now to find out what I can do with this picture taking machine:

 

[Godfrey]

HPYBDY, Dave!

Nice pix! I have to sy, there's something particularly magical about 6x6 film. Put a test roll through the Balda last weekend and I've been re-addicted to it... For the fifth time! In a moment of utter laziness, I had the film processed and then scanned it on my old Epson 2450. The results are making me happy ...

 

[Vics]

Very fine, Dave! Surely I'm not the first to suggest the wet darkroom?

 

[Terry Christian]

If you only shoot 35mm and 120 and not large format, the Epson V600 is the sweet spot at under $200. I have one and do use it for some large format 4x5, but that involves scanning them in two passes and using Photoshop to automatically stitch them together.

And as Tom Hicks said, processing C-41 is just as easy, just a different set of considerations to keep in mind. You have to start thinking more about keeping your chems at a certain elevated temperature, but you don't have to worry about different films having different development times.