Wednesday 3 August 2011

First attempt at developing Black And White photos from my Coronet 1930's film camera

Today I have achieved something that I have wanted to do for such a long time . I have actually taken pictures and developed my own film ..... Quite an achievement for someone who has learned all he knows about this process from the internet !

 Any professionals in film developing really should go look at something else about now because I will probably cause you to be sick in your mouth and be really annoyed at my poor slapdash approach to doing this .


As you can see by my washing line I took the advice of drying the negative in a " dust free area" awesome except my missus was pi ..livid annoyed that she could not put any more washing out

As I do not have  a film scanner the following photos are photos taken with a Canon SLR of the negative then inverted in Photoshop ( Original on left and slightly light adjusted in Photoshop on the right 

White sports socks that were drying on the line came in very handy in keeping a negative white background although you can see the material on a couple of the pics


Never really had a darkroom either so I changed the reel under 2 duvets ( This was the 1st time I have ever used the developing tank so no chemicals have ever been in the unit ) . Any tech buffs out there I'm sorry but I don't know the Tog rating of the duvet sheets but I can tell you that they sufficiently blocked the light in order to transfer the film to the tank . ( I was however slightly hindered by my brother laying on my head and punching me in the kidneys whilst I was trying to get the neg on the film feeder reel )... TOP TIP lock your doors to keep all unwanted family members out of the way until you need their help 



Other than that I loosely followed what I could remember on from the internet . ( My brother at that point did admit to trying to open my camera to have a look at the inside so I really was not holding out for much . Just something resembling an image would have been nice .)  Anyway here are a quick look at the results ( Not scanned photographed and inverted in Photoshop)






One , two , three ... Blink . Not light adjusted just inverted and saved as is

I'm quite happy with the results but will try and be a bit more professional next time........maybe