Just developed my first Roll. It's hanging to dry.

[Pirate]

A roll of Fuji Neopan SS 100 ISO.

Ilford Microphen developer. 6min, 25sec @ 72 degrees F.

Ilford Ilfostop Stop-bath. 30sec.

Tetenal Superfix Plus rapid fixer. 4min.

F 905 Netzmittelkonzentrat washer. One drop w/water 10min.

My photo teacher, George, a German Master Photographer, gave me all the cues as we went through each step this afternoon when the equipment showed up at the shop. I brought it all home and had at it.
Tomorrow night I will be doing another roll (or more) after the parties downtown that I'm photographing, including one job (mostly digi for that). That will be Tri-X 100 and maybe some Ilford FP4 Plus 125, and I have some AGFA APX 100 Professional too. With everything going on tomorrow, I know I'll have time to shoot plenty so we'll see what I can develop.

One thing I learned to make the development process go smoother is to have the chemicals for the different stages pre-staged. I'm going to purchase a couple more of the 1 litre graduated pitchers so I can move from step to step quicker and easier. I spent too much time trying to keep up the agitation and pour in the amounts for the next step... Just need to make it a little smoother.

Gonna let the film hang for a little longer before pulling it out and cutting it, but upon a quick peek through the frames as I hung it up, it didn't look too bad. I'll cut it to strips and put it on the viewer for a better look and post back in a little bit.

Happy Shooting!

 

[FrankS]

Cool isn't it? Congrats!

 

[Ducky]

+1 for "cool, isn't it?"
I do enjoy the process.

 

[johannielscom]

Home-developing is über-cool

🙂

I'm planning to start C-41 end of summer. There's 200ft. of Kodak Edupe slide duplicating film I'm having cross-processed, but it costs extra and is slow when sending out, since the lab only wants to process once their chemicals start to run out for regular processing. I'm gonna do it myself, at home 😎

 

[Ronald M]

After 50 years of it, you can say I want a digital camera and the card comes out with the pics on it. But I guarantee you a bunch of fun in the mean time. Congradulations.

Scan or print the film before doing anything important so you know if you did anything wrong. All film looks good to amateurs as long as ther is an image on it.

 

[Pirate]

I'm looking at the frames on my light box right now. The right stuff is in focus and things are good and clear, but it's Negative film and there were some areas I was trying to bring out the shadows, such as people under awnings having lunch at the cafe, and browsing outside displays in an alley at a shop. I'll get some of it printed to be sure though.

 

[paulfish4570]

Arr, huzzah fer ye, Pirate ...

 

[Pirate]

It was great! The last few shots on that roll were from here in Germany, the first half was the last set of shots from Iraq.

I think it needs to be just a little bit lighter, but again, it's negative film so I'll have to make some prints to really be sure of everything.

I have a couple shots I really want to turn out ok on a roll of Tri-X that I shot a couple days ago. I'll be finishing that roll up tomorrow and developing that one tomorrow night for sure. Sorry I don't have a scanner yet, I'd love to show off some of these.