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Matt talks about how to develop black & white film at home using Cinestill's Df96 Monobath solution. In this step by step video walkthrough, you'll learn how to use this self completing developer solution from Cinestill for black and white film. This is the easiest way to develop b&w film at home using a one-step solution!
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what's up YouTube so Matt here again
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from filter grid and today we're gonna
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be teaching you guys how to develop
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black and white film at home using
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synostosis DF 96 solution this is a
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mountable solution so that means you
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only need to be using the developer
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solution once and then rinsing it and
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then drying it so it's super easy to use
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almost anybody can do it and you only
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need a few materials to get started to
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get started with your process you'll
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need your developer you'll need a bucket
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to fill with water you'll need your
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thermometer to make sure all your
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temperatures are correct for synostosis
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DF 96 solution all the instructions are
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labeled on the front they're really
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simple and there's a few variations on
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how you want to develop your film but I
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still like to write the directions on
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the back and sharpie just because
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sometimes the front will get washed off
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during development next you'll need your
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Paterson tank with the lid the like
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tight seal and your agitation stick
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depending on what you're shooting you'll
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either need your 120 millimeter film
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reel or your 35 millimeter film reel
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today we're going to be using 120
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millimeter film so we'll use this reel
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you also need a film squeegee for drying
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and a timer for while you're developing
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just to make sure you have your time's
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right and then lastly we have two
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optional materials one is the funnel for
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when you want to put your chemicals back
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in and two are just safety gloves to
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make sure you don't get any on your hand
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anything like that so once you have all
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your materials ready to go let's head
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over to the sink and get started okay so
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now we're at the sink and to get started
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we're gonna need to fill our bucket up
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with the hottest water you can get in
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order to get your developer to whatever
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film temperature you desire for
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developing
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cinestyle recommends four different
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variations the one I choose and the one
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that I recommend is the hottest
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temperature eighty degrees Fahrenheit
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which is about 27 degrees Celsius this
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will be for three minutes of agitation
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and then about a five minute rinse and
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then you're done you can also do all the
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way down to about sixty degrees
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Fahrenheit so like sixteen degrees
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Celsius and this will just be fair like
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a polled contrast look a little bit
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different but I prefer a degrees
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Fahrenheit I think it looks more of a
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more of a sharp image so that just works
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for me
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so let's go ahead and fill up the bucket
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and get our developer to the right
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temperature
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[Music]
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okay so now we have our hot water in our
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bucket and we're waiting for the
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developer to heat up in about five or
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ten minutes we'll use a thermometer to
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check the temperature depending on what
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developing time you want to use it might
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take a little bit longer it might take
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less but in the meantime we're going to
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go ahead and load our film onto the
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developing reel so go ahead and get your
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darker bag or heading to your darkroom
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and then I'll meet you back here okay so
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I'm back from the darkroom and I've just
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loaded my film into the Patterson tank
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now let's go ahead and check take a look
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at the temperature on the film developer
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I'm going to be using the eighty degrees
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fahrenheit method for stick agitation
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for three minutes and after that I'll
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rinse for five minutes and then I dry
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the film so it should be an easy process
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and okay so now I don't know if you can
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see it but we're at 80 degrees
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Fahrenheit I'm gonna go ahead and get
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started
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just take the developer out of the water
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and shake it up a little bit just so
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that none of the chemicals are at the
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bottom
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everything's evenly distributed I'm
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gonna go ahead and put on my gloves just
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so I don't get anything on my hands
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either
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shake it up just a bit more I'm just
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gonna load this into the Paterson tank
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and once it's full is when I usually
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start my timer just to make sure that
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everything stays congruent you should
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try and stay consistent when you are
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developing just so that you always have
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an even in similar solution so I'm going
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to go ahead and start the timer and do
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continuous stick agitation for the three
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minutes
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okay so now we're rounding about three
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minutes and I'm gonna go ahead and dump
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the chemicals back into the bucket
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after this I'm gonna use the water just
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about room temperature and I'm gonna
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wash the film for five minutes to make
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sure you seal it with your hand before
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you start just to make sure it's about
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wrinkles here
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so from about 3:30 until 8:30 I'll leave
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the water running and I'll meet you back
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here after that
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[Music]
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okay so we're coming back to 8:30 about
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you got about ten more seconds and after
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that I'm going to drain the water and
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then use the film squeegee to dry out
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the film initially and then after that
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I'm gonna go hang it up I just go hang
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it up in my bathroom when I do my film
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at home that's where I usually recommend
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it just because that's usually the area
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with the least amount of dust in your
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house you can also go ahead and do it in
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your room or somewhere where not too
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many people are walking around that said
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go ahead and give a few swipes with the
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film squeegee just to make sure you get
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all the water
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[Music]
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once you see most of the bubblers off of
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it and there's not too many streaks or
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anything like that you can go ahead and
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hang them up if you have some weights to
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hang them up with the bottom to make
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sure that everything stays straight
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that's good but if not that also works
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as well but as you can see here the
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photos and yeah that's pretty much it
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