For anyone in the comments here. Most bathrooms can be made into a dark enough space to change your film in. Try it beforehand though to be sure. Stand in your bathroom with the lights off and look for any light leaks around the door and seal it off either with black gaff tape or hand a black blanket/blackout curtains.
One way to prevent cross contamination is to use color tapes. E.g., I use a Blue tape to label the bottle and cap for Blix, and reD for the Developer's bottle and cap. If funnels are involved, I have separate funnels for developer and blix, labeled with red and blue tapes respectively.
Not me watching this when I work in a whole film lab! 😂 love this. My job uses a Fuji processor for c-41. Didn’t know it was this easy to do color film by hand tho. I do black and white by hand there and do love it.
I remember when Bessler chemicals came out, using 100 degrees, each step of the two chemicals were only 1 minuet each. If you used lower temperatures it could go up to 5 minutes without shifting the colors. When I started with Kodak chemicals, there were 5 chemical steps
Easiest way to develop color film? True. Nothing more to say. Especially the TCS-1000 makes it so easy and nearly fool proof. Thanks for putting together this solution.
Just use a conversion chart like the other 1% of us 😉 You have to remember that so many of the inventions that we all take for granted these days were either invented or perfected and built and distributed by American companies from the Industrial Revolution through the late 20th century! No one’s fault, it just is what it is. The US is embracing the metric system more and more, which undoubtedly is easier and more accurate… but change is slow. I still use the imperial system personally, but I understand the metric system and definitely see its benefits! The younger generations especially are using metric more.
Spanish: tengo una recomendación para el que siga este tutorial. Cuando hagas el revelado y coloques el blix. Ten cuidado si usas tanque como el Patterson. Ya Que bota especié de gases y en mi caso mi tanque explotó Jajaja fue chistoso pero no lo fue tanto limpiar el blix del piso derramado. Pero al final todo salió bien y tengo mis fotos listas !! English ; I have a recommendation for whoever follows this tutorial. When you do the development and put the blix. Be careful if you use a tank like the Patterson. Since I specified gas boot and in my case my tank exploded Hahaha it was funny but it was not so much cleaning the spilled blix from the floor. But in the end everything went well and I have my photos ready !!
Love this video! Super excited to develop my first roll! Double checking: the water should be warmed to specified temperature before any mixing starts? Also, is tap water safe to use or is distilled water the best option? Thanks!
Hey team, great video, been using the powdered kit for a while now and love it! You mentioned Instagram filters for colour negative film, I couldn't find the link in the description, could you share please, would love to check them out!
Hey Simon! Thanks for watching. We just added it to our description (whoops!) but you can find it by going to the filters tab on our Instagram profile or this link should work directly too: instagram.com/ar/2747900915465661
Thanks for tutorial! I just got the TCS-1000 and color developing kit and was wondering about something; the formula for adding time for reusing is a little bit confusing and would appreciate a little bit better explanation for it. Also you advertise that you can reuse it up to 24 rolls and it seems just tad odd because the instructions say that you can develop 8 rolls of 135 film or 120 film, so is it 24 or 8? 😅 love your products and I will continue to use them but I would hope for more easier instructions! (This could be a language barrier thing too tho..)
Hi! The table you are looking at refers to how many rolls you can process in the same tank at the same time. With 1000mL you can process up to 8 rolls of 135 at once, but the chemistry should be able to do 24 rolls over its lifespan. I hope this helps!
The directions say to bring the water up to 120° for Dev and 125° for Blix for mixing. Is this necessary for proper chemical activation or just a way to save time bringing the chemicals up to temp prior to developing? I mixed my Dev and Blix with 70° distilled water. Did I screw it up?
Lol your tcs 1000 stuff look like a soup mixer machine, well done it warm the water and help mix the chemical without adding bubble truly a usefull tool.
How long is the chemistry meant to last? I've done 10 rolls now (with slowly increasing developing time) and no issues. However I've had it over 2 months, should i be disposing soon for the best results? Or will it be ok as long store it carefully? This video was super helpful.. thx :)
Developing Neophyte here- does the film's iso determine the developing time/temperature for chemicals? Thank you, and I'm excited to use my new kit from y'all!
Your local municipality should have a household hazardous waste disposal facility. Some are a simple drop-off. Others you schedule a pickup at your address. These chemicals are no more dangerous than some cleaning products, but it’s always good to follow local regulations regarding disposal.
Do you recommend a stop bath between the developer and the blix? I’d think pouring blix in right after you use the developer would contaminate the blix when you pour it back in the storage bottle. I’m new to this so any feed back would be great
The Blix is designed such that the Developer getting into it will not contaminate it. As such, there is no need to rinse the film in between the Developer and the Blix. However, be careful not to get Blix into the Developer, as that will kill the Developer. Also you definitely would not want to use a B+W chemical stop bath.
I have a question, since I didn't quite catch the following part: Do you rinse off the Developer from the tank, before you pour in the Bleach&Fix? I didn't see that in the video. I develop only B&W at home currently, and there I do that for sure. I wash with water in between the Developer and the Fixer, sicne otherwise I am contaminating the Fixer with drops of Developer. Also, do you use and do you have to use Stop Baths - meaning chemicals, that stop the developing process after the 3,5 minutes, or is just removing the chemical enough? Thanks!
Website just says "long shelf life" can someone elaborate on how long these can be expected to be effective once mixed? He does say "several weeks" in the video. I'm just curious about a bit more specific timetable. I guess I should probably just wait until I have quite a few rolls ready to be processed before mixing up the chemistry
Good evening. I was wondering what type (names) of chemicals (developer, fixer, etc) I need to develop black & white film and color film. Where to buy them? Also, all the equipment I need to develop everything. Also, chemicals to develop the black & white paper? Thanks.
@@Stoneboy666 Ig its like really 2% for each processed film. So you prob should count your films and lets say you have already processed four films you then need to increase your dev time by 8%(4 films x 2% for each film).
started developing at home, and i developed four roles with this kit so far, i love it. but i have a lot of Kodachrome, if i run that through, what will the result be? will i get negatives? or positives?
Yes! Any color negative film can be processed together in the same tank at the same time. The only time you'd want to separate and batch things is if you have some film that's been shot normally at box speed and some other film you're intending to push- or pull-process.
