The developer can be re used for about 12 rolls. When you reach the 3:30 mark, pour the developer back into its bottle. Avoid placing the tank on a cold counter, rather, put back in the water between agitations. Step 1: pour the developer into the tank and start the timer. When the temperature is right, you are ready to start: Dump the water out of the tank when ready - the water may be coloured and this is fine. This will help with temp control as the cool film won't reduce the developer temp. You may or may not want to pre soak the film (after you have loaded it into the tank in the changing bag). If you miss the target, you will need to cool off the water. Put the thermometer in the developer bottle. Leave the water running so it is overflowing - this way it won't cool off. Put your developer bottle and your blix bottle in the pot. Put a large pot in a sink and fill it with hot water. Also, the developing times are usually the same for most type of film - 3:30. Also, make sure to not leave the bottles open - close them at each step. The chems don't last too long - a couple of weeks or so. Mix the stabilizer powder with 1L of room temp water. Mix BlixA with 800ml warm water and then add BlixB and as much water as needed to go to 1L (you won't need to add much water after BlixB). BlixA and BlixB get mixed together and combined they make 1L of blix. Put the developer powder into ~800ml of warm water and mix until it is dissolved, while adding more water to go up to 1L. The Tetenal kit contains 4 packets of powder chemistry. If you get any on your hands, wash them right away. Also, LABEL your bottles or you might ruin your film when you pour the used developer into the blix bottle and vice versa. So don't use your kitchen sink for developing, don't leave the bottles laying around where kids/people can knock them over. Some clips to hold the film while it dries - one more link
#C 41 PROCESSING AT HOME DOWNLOAD#
Timer - timing needs to be accurate, so download an app or use a stopwatch
#C 41 PROCESSING AT HOME MANUALS#
Kits come with manuals so you should read those too.Ĭontainers for the chemicals or alternatively bottles - 3 should be enough, 4 if you have separate bleach and fixer Tetenal C-41 kit - This whole tutorial is tailored for this kit. So if you have suggestions (like timings/temps/materials) please let me know and I'll fix the mistakes or add any additional info.
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This info has been collected from sources on the Internet, and thus YMMV. Please note: this is in no way the end all be all. It's good to train your development skills by starting off with bw development. Okay, before we start, you may or may not want to check out the BW development tutorial.