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alright what's up guys my here again
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from filter grid and today I'm gonna be
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going over how I develop my color film
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at home it's just super easy process
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that a lot of people are intimidated by
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just because of the chemicals and all
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the equipment but I promise once you put
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the upfront cost into it and you kind of
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get a better understanding of everything
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it's gonna save you a whole lot of time
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and money so let's go ahead and jump
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into it what you're gonna need to start
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developing your film is first and
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foremost the chemicals these are going
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to be linked in the description it's
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just a classic color 40 or c41 color
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negative film chemistry kit will put a
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picture of it on the screen you'll need
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a funnel a thermometer that is capable
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you know staying in liquids with Celsius
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or Fahrenheit you need a pair of gloves
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that are rubber with you can use the
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disposable ones but I like to use these
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just because you don't have to throw
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them out every time you'll need to film
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a film squeegee a bucket and the dirty
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rag in case you spill anything
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you'll need a Paterson tank and all this
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will be linked in the description we
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have an article on it on the blog for
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how to do everything and it's all links
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through there so if you have any
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questions just go there it's easy to
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find it but the Paterson tank will this
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will all come together you can either
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get one of the small tanks which does
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two rolls of 35 millimeter film or one
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roll of a format film or you can get one
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of the larger tanks it doesn't matter
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but this will come with the agitation
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stick the lid the light seal lid and
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then also all the reels which you can
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load the film onto will be loading on
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the one row of cars porch of 401 of
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security extra 400 today so we'll go
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ahead and do that in a second and then
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lastly though to get the film onto the
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reels you'll either need a darkroom bag
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which you can buy on Amazon and I don't
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really use those but you can also go
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into your bathroom or closet wherever
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it's dark enough and you can use just a
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candle or a bottle opener i pair of
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scissors to open the film and then
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manually load it on the reel just in a
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darkroom once you get it onto the reels
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and put it back into the tank cover it
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with the lid and everything and you can
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do the rest of it with the lights on so
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it's a super easy process you don't have
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to be in the dark the whole time that's
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a big misconception a lot of people have
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so I'm gonna go ahead and load my film
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onto the reels and then I'll meet you
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they know that I forgot to mention is
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that usually it's good to set your film
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or your uh get your chemicals to the
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right temperature we're going to be
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using about 102 degrees Fahrenheit for
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the developer and the Blitz
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to start so go ahead and get your water
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get your water as hot as it can go and
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then go ahead and put the to the
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developer and the clicks into the bucket
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so that these can get up to 102 degrees
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Fahrenheit as fast as possible
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alright so now I'm going to go ahead and
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go into my bathroom turn off all the
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lights and put a blanket over the edges
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so that no light gets in and then put
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the film on the rails and I'll be right
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back to start alright so I'm back in the
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darkroom and the film is loaded up on
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the reels in my Patterson tank and we're
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gonna be following a process that is
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it's just on the direction sheet that
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comes with the film chemicals that I
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bought that's linked in the description
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we'll post a picture of that here and
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also down below so you can just follow
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there's only on five steps first is
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water for about a minute and a half next
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distant developer which is about five or
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so minutes three or four minutes
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I'll put I'll put everything in on the
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next is the blex which is basically like
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a bleaching process that's for about
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seven minutes or so then there's water
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again rinse for two or three minutes and
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then you finish it off with a stabilizer
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like I said everything I'll put it below
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in the description and also I'll just
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have it on the screen so it's easy to
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follow let's go ahead and check the
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temperatures to make sure that
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everything is right you're gonna want to
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have the developer and Blix set to about
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102 degrees Fahrenheit a lot of times it
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takes a while to get to the exact
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opposite of looking for
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and I've experimented with using like
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anything from between 90 degrees
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Fahrenheit to 110 degrees and you're not
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going to see that much like a huge
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difference regardless of what your
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temperature set at but I know there are
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a lot of photographers out there that
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like to be kind of precise with their
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temperatures but it's up to you so we're
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at about 98 degrees so I'm going to go
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ahead and get started like I said the
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first step is water and the water should
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be about 100 degrees as well around
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there so just use your thermometer and
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check it out and then we'll go ahead and
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start the target I'm just going to be
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using my phone for stopwatch timer you
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can buy one of the darkroom timers but
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seems like a bit of a wasted morning in
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there all right so we're at about a
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and I'm gonna go ahead and just fill up
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the bucket with water I usually start
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after the bucket on the floor
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okay so the timer started and I'm gonna
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leave this go for the first minute
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from zero until one minute and then
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we're gonna dump the water out and
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switch in with the developer okay so my
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next step is usually just put the gloves
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on because we're about to start working
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with the chemicals now that I know my
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chemicals are at the right temperature I
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usually like to give them a good shake
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just to make sure everything's mixed
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around and not settle at the bottom
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we're coming in at about a minute right
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now so go ahead and turn off the water
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I'm gonna just dump the water out
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sometimes you'll see a little bit of
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color depending on what film you might
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get a rat or brown tent but usually
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it'll just be clearer a little orange
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now we're gonna just dump the developer
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in and be mindful of what time you're
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putting it the developer in I usually
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I'm done putting the developer in my
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tank by one minute and thirty seconds
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and I start my agitation for ten seconds
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and we're gonna be leaving this in the
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developer until five minutes and we're
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gonna be agitating every 30 seconds and
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I'll show you what an agitation will
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look like once you're done with the
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agitation stick you can go ahead and put
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make sure it's all the way closed you
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don't wanna spill in and then after that
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first 15 seconds so I started at 1
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minute 30 seconds I added with the
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agitation stick until 1 minute and 45
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seconds and then every 30 seconds after
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that you're gonna give on just some some
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flips with the Paterson tank to make
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sure that the film doesn't get stuck or
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kind of settle at the bottom and you
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don't want to shake the tank you just
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want to kind of gently rotate it around
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do this about four terms and then I tap
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it and leave it and then once I'm done
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tapping it I wait another 30 seconds and
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then I repeat that same process I'll
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just keep doing that until I hit the
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five minutes and then I've dumped the
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developer back into the back into my
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glass because it's reusable for a good
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amount of times and after that I'll be
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using the Blitz and I'll show you that
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in a little bit at four minutes and 15
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seconds so 45 more seconds this will be
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my last agitation and then I'll let it
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sit for a little like 30 more seconds
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and then dump out the developer at this
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point I usually like to start washing
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off the top just to make sure nothing
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cross-contaminate so we're at five
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minutes I'm going to go ahead and dump
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out the developer back into the
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development thing and then next I'm
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going to be putting the blech into the
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container make sure that's well shaken
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up as well so the Plex I usually do from
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about five minutes and thirty seconds
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until twelve minutes with the same kind
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of repeated process with the agitation
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stick for the first ten or so ten to
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fifteen seconds and then put the lid on
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and do flip agitations every 30 seconds
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a lot of people really like being kind
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of precise with their timing and
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everything but it doesn't have to be
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perfect it'll get the job done kind of
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if you mess up a little here and there
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if you're a few seconds off it's not the
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end of the world if anything you might
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see some different results but it's not
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such a difficult process that if you
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mess up a few seconds then you won't be
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able to see your photos at all so kind
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of eliminate that fear um they need to
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be worried about with the flicks not as
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actually sure what the chemicals inside
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of the the blips are but they tend to
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kind of bubble up when you flip the
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container over like a soda would so
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every once in a while you kind of have
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to burp it just open up the lid and let
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some of the air out so that it doesn't
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like burst on you and spill everywhere
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just blips is not a good chemical to
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just spill on on your hands or anything
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all right so we're back and with that
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about 11 minutes and 15 seconds so I'm
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gonna go the next step is washing the
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felt because you don't want anything
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blech left on film when you put a
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stabilizer on some stabilizer on it so
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what I'm doing now is just getting the
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the water set to about 90 to 100 degrees
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Fahrenheit because we're gonna be
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washing it for about three minutes after
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this and then after that will be our
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last step so let's go ahead and dump out
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and then the next step is gonna be water
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we're at almost 90 degrees and I'm sure
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it's heating up so I'm going to go ahead
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and start it I'll leave it there until
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the time it hits about 15 to 16 minutes
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you can leave it for longer water the
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washing processes don't really matter
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but I like to give it at least two or
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three minutes to make sure you kind of
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get everything you need to out you can
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dump the water out and then restart it
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every once in a while too as well just a
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fresh bath and then I'll check back in
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and about five or so minutes and we'll
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be doing the last step which is the
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stabilizer which can actually be at room
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temperature so I just like to shake that
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out beforehand and then that's the last
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step all right so what about 16 minutes
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and I'm just gonna finish up with the
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water go ahead and dump it out
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and we're going to the final step which
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is a stabilizer go ahead and shake that
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off one more time you can dump it in and
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then the first 15 seconds so I'll do
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from 16 minutes and 45 seconds until 17
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minutes flat I'll be agitating with the
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agitation stick and now I'll let it sit
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for another 45 seconds and then after
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that we can go ahead and dump the
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stabilizer and check on the phone all
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right so we're rounding about a minute
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with the stabilizer in I'm going to go
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ahead and dump it out
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let's go ahead and check out the film
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awesome so we'll take off the first row
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sometimes they might get caught on the
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reels a little bit one of my reels is
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kind of broken so sometimes it gets
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stuck but you can see the photos now go
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ahead and use the squeegee to wipe all
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the stabilizer off so you don't get any
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water marks or anything like water broom
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all right and then the next step is
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gonna be just to hang the film up I like
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to do it in the bathroom as well because
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it's the area in my house with the least
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amount of dust so you can use um weights
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to hold the film so that it kind of
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dries out nice and flat and straight but
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I usually just kind of hang it by the
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top and make sure you don't get any
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water or any duster don't don't really
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get anything on it you can just keep it
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as clean as possible
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so I'm gonna go ahead and hang a first
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so now you can see the photos and you
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can see there's still fluids all over
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these so we need to use the the film own
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thing off of it before everything is dry
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if you don't use a squeegee before you
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hang it dry you will have a lot of water
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burns if you try and scan the photos
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which is it can be a cool look if that's
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what you're going for but just something
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to be cautious oh just give it one of
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three classes with the squeegee and I
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usually kind of knock off the excess
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liquid stock in and squeeze you all
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right so let's go ahead and take a look
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at the negatives and zoom in on this you
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get these top ones some fisheye shots
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with these these few shots awesome
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all right so that's it for how much
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develop my color film at home make sure
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you check out the tutorial that we have
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linked below on the blog if you have any
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other questions you can leave a comment
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below as well also if you're interested
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in seeing how I scan
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go ahead and leave a comment because
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we're thinking about making a video for
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that but anyways we'll see you next time
