12/18/2023 0 Comments Develop c41 at home![]() ![]() ![]() Yes I could probably have hacked the c41 method somehow via temperature or by probably adding some extra step but that is a huge hassle and a greater risk. There is no practical way of developing the extinct c22 method as the process is different from the modern c41. Thankfully I had agreed with David to develop all of the rolls in d76 black and white stock developers for the best possible chance to survive the harshness of time! The rolls ranged from C22 colour negative, black and white films, and a couple of c41 rolls, this meant that I had to think about what developer and development times! He agreed to the terms and some time later sent me a package with what I needed for the work! Sometime later when he had received the package and sent me some close up shots of the rolls, this enabled me to tell him what I needed to do the job and more importantly to set the expectations of what to expect from what is probably 60+ year old film! I said sure, asked him some questions, and asked him to send me more info on the rolls themself so that I can research if, and how, I would develop them. He had purchased the rolls via an auction with the backstory that they came from an old photo studio! You also make a point to list out the steps of color, but a simplified color process with a developer, blix, and stabilizer has the same if fewer steps than bw (dev, fix, and wash aid, however I also use a stop and hypoclear).I am a member of an analog photography Facebook group and some time ago a person by the name of David contacted me and asked if I wanted to help him develop some old exposed rolls of film from the 1960s – 1970s. This variability is what makes BW the better process, however. But the wide range of developers, stocks, and temperatures requires due diligence every time you step outside of your standardization. Now, as you state, BW can also be made into a standardized process by keeping with a select film and developer. ![]() It is the same every time, and the reason I deem it easy is because of that, there are no considerations that have to be made. I don’t think either processes are necessarily “hard” and I would agree with the tedium of color, but the fact of the matter is that black and white is a process that has a wide range of manipulatable variables, while color is entirely fixed. ![]() With color it’s set up the sous vide, with the dev, bleach, fix, stabilizer wait half an hour for it to come to temp, pour in the dev, invert every 30 seconds, ding goes the timer on my app (that I always use to keep all this consistent), dump back into the dev bottle carefully, rinse the “dev funnel,” rinse the tank for 2-3 mins, pour in bleach, do that for the specified time, pour into the bleach bottle using the “bleach/fix funnel” so there’s no risk of cross contaminating the chems, then rinse again, then do the fixer, then rinse again for a long time, then a couple drops of stabilizer in the final rinse, dip dip done. With B&W I throw 15ml of HC-110 into a beaker and fill to 600ml, dump it in the tank, agitate every minute for 8 minutes give or take (based on my handy table adjust a little longer if it’s winter and the water’s colder but it’s flexible), dump into the drain, rinse, fix for 2 minutes, rinse and done. I’m one of those, and I never understand how people can say C41 is “easier.” Baffles me. ![]()
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