Re: Starting your own lab

[Luvdove6@xxxxxxx]

>From your last email... 
YES....  if you bring in your developed negatives a lab can definitely give 
you prints!
I find that they don't give me very good ones because I think a good print 
needs individual attention... like on EACH frame... and I think contrast 
filters are good too!
But anyway.... if you can't print on your own... then you CAN develop on your 
own and it will be much cheaper to ask for them to make prints of your roll 
of developed negatives.... 
Just don't cut them after you develop them... bring them in as a long strip!
They just put it in a machine....  ;-)

> 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?

Yeah.... it really ISN'T that difficult  ;-)
If you just buy some cheap b&w film and take shots of stuff around the house 
or outside...  and try developing it a couple of times until you're really 
comfortable you'll see its not hard at all... nothin to lose right?  
Chemicals are really cheap pretty much...  the process is easy as long as you 
have the time charts and all... so the only thing to worry about is finding 
(or creating) a place with no light!

>  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...

Most photography darkroom books will say the same things.... you can even get 
one at the library and maybe make copies of the few pages you think you need?
Mostly ALL b&w films will have a chart in the box or on the inside of the 
actual box that will say how long to develop with which kind of developer at 
what temperature!
And the stop and fix is pretty much the same all the time if you use plain 
ol' chemicals  ;-)

So anyway... I'm sure there are instructions for stuff like this on the net 
somewhere... just search!
If you need more detailed instructions you can ask again or email me 
privately (luvdove6@xxxxxxx) and I'll be happy to help too  ;-)

Good luck!



~Holly~

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