Category: Darkroom
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In my darkroom #01: Craig Pindell
Do you want to create a darkroom but have no idea where to start? Perhaps you’re a little confused by all of the options, or conflicting accounts of “what’s best”.
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Film stock review: Bergger Pancro 400 Part 6 – 35mm EI 400 reversal development (bracketed +/- 1 stop)
It’s about time to wrap up the part of this series that covers Bergger’s 35mm Pancro 400 film with something a bit special: reversal development results. Before you start scratching your head or disappear altogether, allow me a minute or
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How to develop your own slide film with the Tetenal Colortec E-6 kit
Congratulations, if you are reading this article then you are (hopefully!) willing to take the next step in your film development adventure.
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An introduction to black and white darkroom printing
Black and white printing is (obviously) fun, and easy to get into.
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Working with Paper Negatives – Part 3: At work in a makeshift darkroom
Welcome to part three of my series on photography using paper negatives aka photographic paper! If you’re new to the series, please take a moment to read the preceding parts before diving in.
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Getting to grips with darkroom printing using Caffenol (and alternatives) – Darkroom alchemy
Analog black and white film development and chicken soup. Enough internet for today? An unusual combination, but according to an article I found online, chicken soup can be used to develop film.
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How to: An introduction to wet plate collodion
You might remember that we featured an interview with Robert Marsters some months ago.
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Cheat sheet: Kodak Tri-X 400 development times – EI 200 to EI 25600
My ILFORD FP4 PLUS development times article seemed to cause quite a buzz.
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Cheatsheet: ILFORD FP4 PLUS development times – EI 100 to EI 6400
Over the years I’ve built up a large bank of development times and schemes for many black and white films, old and new;
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Save the planet – understand film washing kinematics
Gist: You are basically wasting water if you wash your film for greater than 7 mins after fix. I wash for 10 mins because I am paranoid. I never followed ILFORD’s recommendations and I think I was wrong.
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Working with paper negatives – Part one: A story of thrift and Magic
Film photography, or analog photography – to use a term that better encompasses other media and processes – really is a fascinating world. To those relatively new to the world outside what is considered traditional film photography (such as myself
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Developing motion picture film in your own darkroom
Snatched from the streets of San Diego in late March 2016 by a group of masked assailants, Diz has been spending some time at EMULSIVE HQ (voluntarily) working on a guest post covering his process for developing motion picture film
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How to bulk load 120 or 220 film (using 65mm Kodak 250D 5207)
In June 2015 I was lucky enough to source a fresh 300ft short-end of Kodak’s 250D (Vision 3 5207) motion picture stock in 65mm format.
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How to get started with pushing (and pulling) film
We’ve roped the very agreeable Michael Bitaxi into putting together a guest post for us covering everything you need to get started with pushing and pulling film. It’s a great read for those of you who are thinking about dipping
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Black and white film high EI shootout part 2: Kodak Tri-X 400, T-MAX 400 and ILFORD HP5 PLUS, Delta 400 at EI 25600
The high EI shootout is back for part two: the pushening. Poorly executed references to the terrible sequel that was Highlander 2 aside, I’m hoping that you’ll find this extension of part one just as informative as the first and
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A treatise on dealing with your film archive
UPDATE: This article is in sever need of an update.