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developing it yourself reduces that delay! and no photo shop staff to look at your photos.

by canbus 3y ago

gabereiser 3y ago
While increasing the barrier of entry. Not everyone has a dark room laying around.
- zimpenfish 3y ago
  > Not everyone has a dark room laying around. You don't necessarily need one for just developing the film - dark bag to load the film onto the spool which is lightfast and bob is your photographed uncle (source: me, having done this in very un-dark kitchen twice.) I suppose if you want to make your own prints, that probably needs a darkroom but you can get a film scanner cheap and print them on a colour laser, inkjet, or even one of those Selphy dye subs in lieu of that.
  - giantg2 3y ago
    This is what I have done. 35mm bw and color developed in a dark bag. Then scan the negatives. So much cheaper than actually having it developed professionally. You also get to mess with the development conditions for various effects.
    - gabereiser 3y ago
      I hear you. My process is cheapest, doesn’t require chemicals, can be done in sunlight, and with some glsl knowledge, essentially the same. Only digitally and for $0.000000001 an image.
      - giantg2 3y ago
        All with none of the experience or knowledge...
      - zimpenfish 3y ago
        Yeah, I do that too but since I'd never really owned a 35mm camera, I thought I'd give it a go ("how hard can it be?" "very if your spool is wet, you fool") and I've enjoyed the experience of taking my PEN-EE around and developing its weird little half-frame outputs.
- ghaff 3y ago
  B&W negatives are easy enough at home. Though you have to get them into a computer and, at that point, I'd sort of be "Why bother?" (other than a fun retro weekend project possibly). And, yes, printing requires an actual darkroom. After school, I quickly decided that setting something up in spare half-bathroom was for the birds.
hef19898 3y ago
Huge time sink for B&W, but sure nice to do, a major pain for color and close to impossible for slide film. The latter was what I basically learned on, back the day, being allowed to sport my dad's back-up F4. Had to tie a knot in the sling for it to not bounce on the ground when I had it around my neck, me being too small. Digital is so much easier, until you want to print. Upside of learbing on film, you are much more carefull at which pictures you take. Maybe, one day, I'll get some B&W film and pull out said F4 again. Big maybe so, as I simply don't have the time to develop film on top of everything else...
- mod50ack 3y ago
  > Digital is so much easier, until you want to print I mean, it's not really hard. You just need the hardware to print the photo well.
  - hef19898 3y ago
    Yeah, that's were becomes expensive again. Good foto printer either cost a fortune, a fortune for ink or both. Well, still cheaper than printing externally. Printing well so seems to be a bit of an art so. Selecting the right paper for the printer and foto, doing some trails... A bit like developong and printing in a darkroom, from the looks of it. Not that I have a lot of experience, I need to save the money for the printer first...
    - gabereiser 3y ago
      Ink printers, where do I start, there’s only one style I can even recommend. Refillable. Forget HP, forget Canon, Brother, get yourself an Epson refillable. Obviously, laser is superior, but if you really want to keep costs down, Epson’s refillable inkjet printers are the only ones that don’t shutdown if you run out of black ink scent. It’s a racket and you should not participate in providing HP or any of those printer companies your money. https://youtu.be/AHX6tHdQGiQ https://youtu.be/AHX6tHdQGiQ
      - hef19898 3y ago

developing it yourself reduces that delay! and no photo shop staff to look at your photos.

by canbus 3y ago

developing it yourself reduces that delay! and no photo shop staff to look at your photos.

gabereiser 3y ago

While increasing the barrier of entry. Not everyone has a dark room laying around.

zimpenfish 3y ago
> Not everyone has a dark room laying around. You don't necessarily need one for just developing the film - dark bag to load the film onto the spool which is lightfast and bob is your photographed uncle (source: me, having done this in very un-dark kitchen twice.) I suppose if you want to make your own prints, that probably needs a darkroom but you can get a film scanner cheap and print them on a colour laser, inkjet, or even one of those Selphy dye subs in lieu of that.
- giantg2 3y ago
  This is what I have done. 35mm bw and color developed in a dark bag. Then scan the negatives. So much cheaper than actually having it developed professionally. You also get to mess with the development conditions for various effects.
  - gabereiser 3y ago
    I hear you. My process is cheapest, doesn’t require chemicals, can be done in sunlight, and with some glsl knowledge, essentially the same. Only digitally and for $0.000000001 an image.
    - giantg2 3y ago
      All with none of the experience or knowledge...
    - zimpenfish 3y ago
      Yeah, I do that too but since I'd never really owned a 35mm camera, I thought I'd give it a go ("how hard can it be?" "very if your spool is wet, you fool") and I've enjoyed the experience of taking my PEN-EE around and developing its weird little half-frame outputs.
ghaff 3y ago
B&W negatives are easy enough at home. Though you have to get them into a computer and, at that point, I'd sort of be "Why bother?" (other than a fun retro weekend project possibly). And, yes, printing requires an actual darkroom. After school, I quickly decided that setting something up in spare half-bathroom was for the birds.

hef19898 3y ago

Huge time sink for B&W, but sure nice to do, a major pain for color and close to impossible for slide film. The latter was what I basically learned on, back the day, being allowed to sport my dad's back-up F4. Had to tie a knot in the sling for it to not bounce on the ground when I had it around my neck, me being too small. Digital is so much easier, until you want to print. Upside of learbing on film, you are much more carefull at which pictures you take. Maybe, one day, I'll get some B&W film and pull out said F4 again. Big maybe so, as I simply don't have the time to develop film on top of everything else...

mod50ack 3y ago
> Digital is so much easier, until you want to print I mean, it's not really hard. You just need the hardware to print the photo well.
- hef19898 3y ago
  Yeah, that's were becomes expensive again. Good foto printer either cost a fortune, a fortune for ink or both. Well, still cheaper than printing externally. Printing well so seems to be a bit of an art so. Selecting the right paper for the printer and foto, doing some trails... A bit like developong and printing in a darkroom, from the looks of it. Not that I have a lot of experience, I need to save the money for the printer first...
  - gabereiser 3y ago
    Ink printers, where do I start, there’s only one style I can even recommend. Refillable. Forget HP, forget Canon, Brother, get yourself an Epson refillable. Obviously, laser is superior, but if you really want to keep costs down, Epson’s refillable inkjet printers are the only ones that don’t shutdown if you run out of black ink scent. It’s a racket and you should not participate in providing HP or any of those printer companies your money. https://youtu.be/AHX6tHdQGiQ https://youtu.be/AHX6tHdQGiQ
    - hef19898 3y ago