Video: Agitating Canister: Developing Film

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Keep the canister moving to get rid of air bubbles. Learn how to develop your own film in this free darkroom photography lesson from a professional photographer.

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a little bit more about agitation. So as I'm agitating the first minute is the most important I don't wanna just fill up this canister with developer and just let it sit. Its very important that I agitate it. Now I'm watching my timer cause I'm going to keep doing this for one minute. After that minute is up, the agitation process is ten seconds from each remaining minute of development time. And at first that got me really confused I really didn't know what I was doing, sometime I wold just shake it the whole time other times I would just leave it. Doing this if your really going take the time to do this you really wanna learn how to do it right. So once that minute is up, what you do is you sort of give the can a little bit of a tap. What that does is it breaks up any air bubbles that might be on your film. After its done, I just let it sit there and I watch the timer. Its very important to not take cell phone calls or not start getting too chatty with some one cause its easy to forget about this, you really pay attention to this, if you ruin your film its all over so yo really wanna pay careful attention to this. After a minute is up I shake for ten seconds on that minute again I tap it.

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Agitating Canister: Developing Film

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