Wow, two posts in one day. Go me.
I developed my first roll of film today. As i mentioned in a previous post, i’ve been thinking of trying out some black and white film developing for a while now. This week i got some gear and gave it a go.
I shot a roll on Agfa APX100 and developed it in Rodinal at 1:50 for 13 minutes, then used Ilford stop bath and fixer.
It was a pretty straightforward process, the hardest bit was starting, as i was worried about stuffing something up. In the end i did stuff something up, but it had nothing to do with the chemicals and timing etc. It was the fact that i stupidly hung my negatives to dry in a shower with a leaking head. So i got drips of water down the bottom of my strip of negatives. Some of the water marks dried out, but others didnt. You always stuff up the shots you’re most interested in seeing dont you… Well i do anyway.
The negatives that didnt dry out are being re-soaked. Hopefully i can salvage some of them.
I was quite happy with the ones that did dry properly, so i scanned them in with my ancient scanner that magnifies grain and dissipates tonal range.
Here are a few shots that scanned ok.
They’re arent amazing, but i am more interested in seeing if i developed them correctly or not. I think they’re pretty close.
As you can tell in some of the shots, the light was incredibly harsh the day i took these…. One day i’ll be able to shoot in favourable light… One day.
EDIT: Added another pic (first one)
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how much did you spend to set yourself up?
been wanting to do for it a while too..
Hey tim, i ended up spendig about $250 (which included 4 rolls of film). I didnt hold back though, i bought a few things that werent really needed, so you could get everything for a fair bit less. The chemicals are surprisingly cheap, for example the developer was only $17 for 500ml, and i only use 6ml per roll. The tank with 2 rolls was just under $50, i almost bought a 2nd hand one alot cheaper off eBay, but deceided to support the local store instead. I measure all chemicals with a plastic syringe from the chemist and mix all the chemicals in seperate containers. Actually i might aswell post up a picture of my whole setup.