Loading & Unloading Film During Development

Video Transcript

"Today I’m going to show you how to develop your own black and white film using a small tank developer in your very own home. In fact the most important step and obviously the first step is to obtain your images and to do that it’s important to know how to properly load your camera, this is just a typically SLR style camera it’s single lens reflex and you can see inside once you open it the film chamber, just line up the guides of the roll of film with the sprocket and string it across, make sure you do not touch this surface right here that’s the shutter, if you damage that it will ruin your camera, so be very careful when unloading and unloading not to touch the shutter. Simply string it across to where you see a little label marked film tip…and then simply close the back of the camera and now we’re ready to go. Now when you go to rewind the roll of film either your camera will do that for you automatically or you’ll have a rewind button that you can hit if you need to pull a roll out before you’re finished with it and to do that simply however your camera rewinds film on this particular one you got a selection on the dial and a separate button here which initiates the film rewind process, hit those together to rewind the film, many other cameras just have a single button that you press or another set of buttons it must be hit to accidental rewind. Remember always make sure the film is completely rewound before you open the back of the camera cause any stray light will damage the film."