Taking pics and developing film

mstangmom · Post by **mstangmom** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:12 pm

So I have always wanted to try taking pics and developing my own film and thought I might finally give it a try.

Any of you picture buffs out there have any recommendations?

I need everything starting with the camera

kantuckyII · Post by **kantuckyII** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:24 pm

I'm kinda curious why you'd want to develop your own film (I'm assuming you're talking B & W as it's very hard to get into color developing) in 2008 with the HUGE strides in digital cameras which have now exceeded (upper models) the quality of 35 mm?

mstangmom · Post by **mstangmom** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:39 pm

Just something I always wanted to try. YEAH BW is what I mainly wanted to try then maybe some color later on if I can get good at it

The Instructor · Post by **The Instructor** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:46 pm

Color is very difficult and expensive to develop.

kantuckyII · Post by **kantuckyII** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:47 pm

If you look into color, you'll see it's not really practical to develop your own and it's very complicated and expensive.

If you're convinced you're still wanting to do this, you can pick up used 35 mm's for a dime on the dollar, they are everywhere. Any camera shop can sell them to you at crazy low prices now except for the flagship models of the major brands.

kantuckyII · Post by **kantuckyII** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:37 pm

Hey, here's a website that shows some video on how to develop that looks pretty good. At the bottom the page there are a bunch of them

HERE THEY ARE

mstangmom · Post by **mstangmom** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:41 pm

Thanks for the link Kantucky, still loading the video though. slow speed ya know.

This is just something I always wanted to do and figure I will never know until I try.

orange-n-brown 365 · Post by **orange-n-brown 365** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:10 pm

I can make my pic 's black and white on my computer... with my digital camera

mstangmom · Post by **mstangmom** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:26 pm

Not the same O-N-B just not the same. I wanted to do this before there were digital cameras. and yes to all the young ones there was a way to takes and develop pics before digital.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:43 pm

I did this quite often in the service.It wasn't my equipment but it was rather easy. Spent a lot of my free time on it . If you can get into it you will enjoy it.

orange-n-brown 365 · Post by **orange-n-brown 365** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:55 pm

mstangmom wrote:Not the same O-N-B just not the same. I wanted to do this before there were digital cameras. and yes to all the young ones there was a way to takes and develop pics before digital.

I know but it saves alot of work :lol:

kantuckyII · Post by **kantuckyII** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:31 pm

It's not the same, B & W film has far more latitude than digital does but...many times, most wouldn't notice.

mstangmom · Post by **mstangmom** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:13 am

Man the internet is great. I posted on chillicothe freecycle last night that I wanted a 35mm camera, different lens', strap, case whatever. and here this morning I went from having none of the above to having 2 one is a point and shoot and the other is an SLR.

orange-n-brown 365 · Post by **orange-n-brown 365** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:08 pm

mstangmom wrote:Man the internet is great. I posted on chillicothe freecycle last night that I wanted a 35mm camera, different lens', strap, case whatever. and here this morning I went from having none of the above to having 2 one is a point and shoot and the other is an SLR.

isn't freecycle nice? I have given away many things on the Athens freecycle :-D

I started taking my daughters senior pics Tuesday with my new digital I got for Christmas this way we get to keep all the pics and I can take them to Wally's to have them made :-D

My eldest daughters turned out great!
And we spent under $100 for them! :-D