how to develop 35mm film at home [2023]

[@Dooom480]

Your channel is sooo underrated. Always great content, well edited, great music, super helpful! Here’s to your eventual breakthrough and road to 100k subs!

[@srad.]

Thank you so much 🥺

[@Squirt5004]

I have been developing B&W film and dark room printing myself since 2010. I have always been hesitant to do color cause I feared it’s complexity. I have shot countless rolls of color but refused to send them out to a lap cause that defeats the process (that I enjoy) of photography for me. So they sit in a dark container in my basement… this video helped me make the leap. I am now mixing my cinestill kit I got a few months ago. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@srad.]

Oh yay I'm so glad!! It seems daunting at first but not super different from B&W! Good luck!

[@lilkngstr]

Much more serious this time, and liked the flashback. Good to see you posting. Adding a dilute vinegar stop bath before blix will let you take your time with the blix so less likely to spill and will also help prolong the blix's life, less developer contaminating the blix.

[@srad.]

Great tip, thanks!

[@MattHooker]

thanks for the shout-out, Sierra! I think this is a youtube first for me 🙂

[@srad.]

I appreciate you!

[@cindella204]

I'd be curious about your scanning process! I don't develop myself but I insist on doing my own scanning because that's how I got started in grad school. Now that I've graduated, I'm still tightening up my process as well - I can't afford to buy the same tools I had access to in the university photo lab. So I'd be interested in seeing how you're working :)

[@srad.]

Noted! Thanks for watching!

[@theoldcameraguy]

Great guide! I did ECN-2 for the first time this week - very tedious

[@srad.]

I bet! Dont think I want to dive into that just yet haha

[@powderedtoastman3093]

Great vid - thanks gorgeous 😉

[@stapledtogether]

Great video! Question, do you notice much a difference in regards to quality of the negs/scans/photos etc from using the home cinestill kit vs getting a pro lab to dev the film?

[@srad.]

Not necessarily, although I haven't done a thorough side by side comparison. Any main differences i notice right away are just my errors like not agitating enough or getting water spots drying on the film. I think scanning might be more important though in terms of quality. When I used a real cheap scanner and just the software than came with it I certainly noticed a difference in quality there

[@Chrizzowski]

Nicely done! Question ... what do you do with the chemicals afterwards? I do all my own black and white with friendly-ish xtol, but the one time I did colour I was left with the spent blix and developer and no real responsible way to get rid of it. Sensitive watershed area, no real municipal chemical drop off or anything like that. Otherwise I'd be doing all my own colour as well!

[@srad.]

Thats a tough situation. Right now I live in a much more populated area where there are waste collection events every so often that makes it easy to drop my chemicals off. Sensitive watershed area makes things more complicated, where I used to live I didnt have anywhere to drop off the chems and read online that some people advise that you can dump them down the drain but to just have water running the whole time to dilute them more, saying its not much different than household kitchen bleach if youre just a hobbyist and not a film lab processing at large volumes.. Idk though, still feels weird to me, maybe you can keep stock of the old chems for awhile and make a trip to whatever the nearest drop off is in the future or something? Just an idea

[@Chrizzowski]

@@srad. Yeah I've heard the whole dilution is the solution thing too, and may well be fine but still feels wrong on some level! That's a fair point about just storing it up and make a trip out of it when it reaches a certain point. Something to think about, thanks!