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Summary: The chemicals that are used to develop film can include D76 or HC110, a stop bath and a fixer chemical, each of which is critical for various stages of development. Gather the appropriate developing chemicals to make different types of prints with helpful tips from a fine art photographer in this free video on darkroom techniques.
Professional Photographer, Deborah Gray Mitchell has been in business since 1981 as both a fine art and commercial photographer. Primarily self-taught, Mitchell counts many successful...read more
"Hi I'm Deborah Gray Mitchell with Deborah Gray Mitchell photography LLC in Miami, Florida. Now we are going to talk about the chemicals that you need to develop film. First you are going to need a film developer and there are several kinds. Ones I like is D76. There are also liquid developers, there is HC110 by Kodak, there's Ilford makes developers of several kinds. But the different developers do affect the film differently. So you can experiment with them. You are going to need a stop bath which is like an indicator stop bath that will stop your development. And you are going to need some fixer, fixer which comes in either regular slow fixer or rapid fixer. Once you get your film developed then you want to wash it and you want to not waste water so you are going to use some perma wash which is also known as hypo clear that will help you get your film washed quickly without again wasting water. And then once you get your film all washed and you want to dry it you are going to put it in a little photo flow solution which is a wetting agent which keeps you from having film, water spots on your film. That's really about it as far as the chemicals you need. Again there are different types of developers, high contrast, soft developers, select all, there's also once you get your film developed you need a way to store it. So you need glassines or some kind of pages which you can slip your negatives into. So the supplies that you would need to develop film again are tanks and reels, you need scissors and a can opener, so that you can open the ends of cans and wala, you'll have a negative."
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