Hi, are you talking about b&w, colour, or both?
B&W is pretty easy; I've never tried colour though. You need a processing tank and somewhere dark to load it with the film. You can buy or make a changing bag for this. Then you need some chemicals, a thermometer and a clock for processing the film. Then you need some stop bath and fixer, then you need some water for rinsing. When you've rinsed the film you have to dry it somewhere which minimises the amount of dust you get on it. That takes care of processing. If you want contact prints that's a more difficult matter because to do them properly you need a darkroom with a safelight. However, if you have a flatbed scanner I believe you can make passable contact prints with that. The cost of processing is quite low, depending on the quality of the equipment you buy. www.silverprint.co.uk will tell you how much in �s. This web site tells you the basics: http://www.silverlight.co.uk/tutorials/basicpf/filmdev.html Google 'basic film development' will tell you far more than you need to know. -- Cheers, Bob Thursday, December 25, 2003, 5:02:00 AM, you wrote: > Hi > All this talk of film getting harder and harder to get processing has made > me think that maybe I should pursue this idea of mine to process my own. I > only need to process the film into negatives and have no need of prints from > a lab as I will scan and digitally process from there. > I've searched somewhat for info on this and haven't found out what I need to > know or what equipment I need to buy. If anyone is selling this equipment I > might be very interested also, but first I need to get a handle on what I'm > getting myself into and how much it will strain my wallet. > I know many of you don't like the time and effort involved with all this > scanning etc, but I truly get a much better sense of satisfaction with this > process then just picking up my pictures from the lab. I feel that > processing the negatives as well would not only make me more independent, > but also enhance the satisfaction I get from this. > Any advice on this subject would be greatly appreciated. > Dave
