From the course: Analog Photography: Shooting & Processing Black-and-White Film
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Chemically processing the film in a kitchen
From the course: Analog Photography: Shooting & Processing Black-and-White Film
Chemically processing the film in a kitchen
Now that we've got the film loaded onto the spool and in the light-safe canister, we're ready to start the chemical process that will turn the latent image trapped in the silver halide crystals into black metallic silver, giving us a negative we can use to either scan or make an enlargement in a traditional photographic process. We've drawn water, nine ounces of water, at a temperature of 75 degrees. And to that, we're going to add one ounce of the developer. The developer, unlike the other chemicals we used, is a one shot chemical. You use this solution once and discard it. And then typically when I do this, once I've finished with the chemical, I'll set it to the side and that helps me keep track of what I'm doing. I'm going to give this a quick stir to make sure that the stock solution we just added to make a working solution is well blended. I'm going to rinse that thermometer off. And then it's important to remember a couple of things about the development process. The level of…
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