Or you know, if you care about all this stuff, just don’t shoot film! I shoot, process, and scan my own film, both color and B&W, and I don’t have any special

Or you know, if you care about all this stuff, just don’t shoot film! I shoot, process, and scan my own film, both color and B&W, and I don’t have any special facilities. Just a sink and a table… As for environnemental concerns, B&W film is pretty straightforward chemically, and the developer I use is just ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and phenidone. It’s non-toxic. The fixer gets full of silver, but I take that to a lab periodically and they put it through a silver recovery system. I think the environmental impact of the film I shoot is dwarfed by all the other things I do in life (burning fossil fuels, using water in a desert, taking and excreting prescription medicines, etc., etc.)