Saturday, January 9, 2016

Color film developing at home: C41 Process

The handcraft of developing film has almost become extinct.
But, there is a recent revival of respective techniques, given the number of resources found on YouTube or blogs where the manual development processes are explained step by step.

While 20 years ago it was common to develop the film and then develop prints, nowadays it is more popular to self-develop the film and scan negatives and slides at high resolution for further digital post processing and subsequent printing.

A very nice video tutorial on developing film using the C41 process by Ted Forbes on The Art of Photography channel. All chemicals and tools as well as the entire manual process explained in great detail:

Or the explanations on the moominstuff blog:
moominstuff: Color film developing at home: Easy!: I live in a city metro area of about 3.5 million folks, 75 miles across from east to west, and there currently seems to be one single place ...

Or on petapixel:
How to Process C-41 Color Negative Film at Home, From Start to Finish

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