Cost of darkroom

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• NikonsandVstroms Registered Users Posts: 990 Major grins

  March 11, 2016 edited March 11, 2016

  A completely dark room to load the film.
  
  Ideally a way to control the temp of the water or but you don't really need that, just a thermometer to check it. This isn't as important with B&W VS color but you should get it roughly in the right temp range.
  
  A development tank is cheap and people likely have some they'll sell you for a few bucks or even give away, brand new you can get a decent one for 2 rolls for about 25 USD. I have 3 in my studio right now that haven't been used in 7 years.
  
  Developer.
  
  Stop bath.
  
  Fixer.
  
  Fixer remover.
  
  And then a place without dust floating around to dry your film.
  
  If you're going to reuse your fixer for a bunch of rolls there are fixer check droplets to make sure that it's still good.
  
  For small bottles of those chemicals is 5-12 USD each and that's the amount I'd buy right now to make sure you like it.
  
  I don't believe I missed anything but I stopped regularly developing film about a decade ago so I'd double check what I said. There should be tons of youtube videos and other tutorials on the web about it.

  http://www.jonathanbeckley.com/

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• staggerlee Registered Users Posts: 12 Big grins

  April 16, 2016 edited April 16, 2016

  stuff
  pegs with a loop of string through the spring{hanging to dry
  
  one of those plug into tap shower hose....pull the rose of and use that into youre tank{to the bottom} to wash
  
  do youre drying overnight in the bathroom{wack all the hot watter on to steam it up a little}that settles the dust
  
  never even bothered with "fixer remover" its not nesasary in the least if you wash youre film corectly
  
  a little bottle of wetting agent{kinda like a soap} itll stop spotting on youre film as it drys

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