RE: Starting your own lab

["George L Smyth" <GLSmyth@xxxxxxx>]

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> From: owner-infrared@xxxxx [mailto:owner-infrared@xxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Pedro Luís
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 11:00 AM
> To: infrared@xxxxx
> Subject: Starting your own lab
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>
> After reading all your answers to my first question with the subject
> "Beginner", I'm thinking that it's probably better to start developing my
> films at home. Is it really not that dificult?
> Do you have any book, site, magazine, ... to sugest. I've never developed
a
> film before. And I'm really a beginner in this kind of things. All that I
> know was learnt from a book and the good old method: trial and error...
>
> Thanks for your help,

PedroL -

Developing film is pretty darn easy - creating the print is what takes time,
patience, and work.  Anyone with minimal coordination can load film onto a
spool (in the dark), pur in the chemicals, and invert the tank several times
a minute.

I would recommend first going to your local library to see what they have
there.  If you are in the US, you can get books through inter-library loan.
I would recommend Adam's book, The NEgative as a good place to start,
although there'll be far more information in there than you'll need to
start.  I would guess that there are many books out there that will help you
out.  Seriously, after you;ve done a couple of rolls, you'll understand how
easy and rote the whole thing is (as I said, doing the prints is the hard
part).

george

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