From the course: Analog Photography: Shooting & Processing Black-and-White Film
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Understanding what you need to develop film
From the course: Analog Photography: Shooting & Processing Black-and-White Film
Understanding what you need to develop film
So now that you've come back from the field with an exposed roll of film, it's time to go though the chemical process that will turn those latent images into actual negatives that you can use to create photographs. There's a few things involved with the process and it may seem a little daunting when you first look at it, but I think as you go through, you'll realize that it's not as huge an expense as you might think. And also, you get a lot of use out of these products. The first thing, and, and arguably the most important, you need some way to hold the film in such a fashion that it will not come in contact with itself while it's going through the chemical process, which is a series of fluid immersions. So, we use a spool that you wind the film onto. It's a spiral, with the metal parts of the spiral coming between the film, keeping a level space there for the fluids to flow. That spiral, loaded with film, will fit within this metal processing tank. This processing tank, they come in…
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