I wanted to share how I develop my film at home. I shoot film every once in a while and prefer to develop at home in stead of sending it to a lab, I like to say every step of film is 100% me! I take the photos, I develop, I scan, and I edit each film photo.

This is the begining of my film development, I gather most of my materials together like such in the first image. The items in the image are listed below in order of left to right, top to bottom.


• Development chemicals in the blue, red, and green capped containers
• A light proof film developing tank
• Scissors
• Nitrile gloves
• A face mask
• An air blower
• Side cutter pliers
• A funnel
• A lightproof bag (the black towel looking thing to the very right)

My chemicals! These chemicals on avg last about 4 months and I mixed them about 5 months so I am a little out of date according to my chicken scratches but I decided to risk it and do two last developments. I labeled the containers "BW" because the chemicals required for color film differs and gets treated differently.



These are the two rolls of film I am developing. due to them being different brands and more importantly different ISO's I will be developing these two seperately, as they require different amounts of development time.



Next I am preparing to take the film out of their casings and put it in the development tub. To do this I must put the tub, the film a film spool, the pliers, and the scissors into the lightproof bag. Whilst in the bag I remove the film and load it onto the film spool and then load it into the tub.

The first image is the development tub loaded and closed. The second image is the tub disassembled.



The next images is of the film spool, one empty and one loaded with blank film to show how the film would be loaded whilst in the bag.



After loading the film onto the spool and loading into the tub!



So now we need to prep for the actual chemical part of the development! First you need to take notes for how to develop each roll of film and clean your work area to limit all forms of dust where you work. Towels and toilet paper are huge factors of dust if you work in your bathroom like I do. (😔 no dedicated dark room moment)



Finally prepped! Now I get to loading chemicals into the tub for the according times in my notes for each roll of film. I did not record this part as I already had plenty of stress just developing the film, maybe next time I will carefully prep a way to record myself doing the development.



Done! Now I hang the film and wait for it to dry, roughly 6 hours.



I forgot to record my work past this so after the drying I cut the film into 6 frame slides and loaded those slides into my flatbed scanner and repeated until all the film is scanned. The scanning process for two rolls normally takes about an hour.

Here is a photo that came from this development. It is far from perfect but still fun nonetheless.



Perhaps another time later I will go much further into detail as to how I do my developments and scanning (maybe even my editing!). Sharing this process was a last minute idea I am happy with just sharing what I remembered to record.

Thanks for reading!!!!!!! Here is a playlist I listened to while working on this :)

Hi, I'm Eta! I am a photographer that is sick of the internet and wish to return to monkey.

Above in the other sections of my site I intend to keep a handful of things.

• A handful of photos I am proud of and don't directly have on my insta page
• Playlists of some of my favorite music
• Information on how to best contact me and even the ability to cyberstalk me over other platforms! <3

Given this website is in the very least more creative than any other form of existence online, I will do my best to keep up with it

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