Friday, March 25, 2016

Developing film strips

    Film requires a lot of knowledge and skill. There are many rules and processes involved with getting the perfect picture. In this blog, I will talk about the next step in the process. The next step is developing your rolled film strip, so that it is ready to go to the dark room. 
    After your film has been rolled around the small metal wheel, it is ready to be developed chemically. If you followed the last steps correctly, your film should be in  metal can rolled neatly inside. You take your can to the developing sink and begin to follow the directions. The directions are simple and easy to memorize. 
      You first fill your can with water and shake your can in a sideways motion for one minute. After emptying your can, you fill it with a chemical called developer. This makes your photos show on the strips of film. You shake your can with the developer for 7 minutes. After each minute, you set your can in the sink and wait ten seconds to continue the minute. After you are done with this process, you fill your tank with water 3 times and shake your can 5 times, 10 times and 20 times. This washes off excess developer.  After pouring out the water, you are ready to use a chemical called fixer. This makes sure the photos on the film strip are perminate. You pour the developer into the can and follow the same procedure as the developer. You do this for five minutes. When this is done, you fill the tank with water and shake for 5, 10, and 20 times. When the water is poured out , you can open the can and take out the rolled film. You drop your developed film into a bucket of chemicals called Photo Flo.  After 30 seconds, you take it out and hang your film in the drier to dry. 

6 comments:

  1. This is so interesting. I didn't know there were so many steps to develops photographs

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  2. I used to think that photography was easy and simple. I didn't know it was way more complicated until now.

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  3. i learned a lot from this blog, and i learned that things aren't as easy as they seem with these complicated steps.

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  4. I remember this movie all about this kind of technique. Super interesting.

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  5. I always thought it was easy to do but then i met a couple people that actually do it and told me all the steps you have to do to actually do it. It seems interesting to do especially if you like it.

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  6. I always thought it was easy to do but then i met a couple people that actually do it and told me all the steps you have to do to actually do it. It seems interesting to do especially if you like it.

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