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”.
Category: Darkroom
Find all of EMULSIVE’s darkroom-related articles right here, including advice on technique, process, gear, and building your own darkroom and tools.
Posted inBergger Film Stock Reviews
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
Posted inDarkroom, Darkroom Equipment, Developing Film, Gear Reviews, Guides & How-Tos
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.
Posted inArticles, Darkroom, Darkroom printing, Guides & How-Tos
An introduction to black and white darkroom printing
Black and white printing is (obviously) fun, and easy to get into.
Posted inArticles
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.
Posted inArticles, Darkroom, Darkroom printing, Developing Film, Experiments
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.
Posted inArticles, Darkroom, Experiments, Guides & How-Tos, Wet plate collodion
How to: An introduction to wet plate collodion
You might remember that we featured an interview with Robert Marsters some months ago.
Posted inDarkroom, Darkroom Equipment, Developing Film, Experiments, Gear Reviews
The Arista Rapid E-6 kit: a guide to developing your own slide film
Before I jump into the guide, allow me a few moments to tell you the story of how I began shooting and developing slide film.
Many years ago, while working as an employee of a transport and delivery company, I
Posted inFilm development times
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.
Posted inDarkroom, Developing Film, Experiments, Film development times, Film stock reviews, ILFORD Film Stock Reviews, Reviews
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;
Posted inArticles, Darkroom, Developing Film
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.
Posted inArticles, Darkroom, Experiments
Working with paper negatives – Part two: Trial by light
You’ve heard of GAS?
Posted inArticles, Darkroom, Experiments
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
Posted inArticles, Darkroom, Developing Film, Experiments, Guides & How-Tos
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
Posted inGuides & How-Tos
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.
Posted inArticles, Darkroom, Experiments, Guides & How-Tos
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
Posted inDarkroom, Experiments, Film development times, Film stock reviews, ILFORD Film Stock Reviews, Kodak Film Stock Reviews, Reviews
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
Posted inArticles, Darkroom, Opinion
A treatise on dealing with your film archive
UPDATE: This article is in sever need of an update.
