04-04-2017, 09:50 AM
You don't need a darkroom to develop B/W film. I worked two decades exclusively with a changing bag to put the film on the spirals of the developing tank. Close the lid and it's light-tight, you just need to fill in the chemicals. You need to dry max 1.6 m of wet film in a dustfree space. Then you can scan the negatives.
I just wonder what you guys think to get out of this? The only reason to go film, no, three reasons for me: better and instant archival qualities, artistic reasons to reduce some possibilities or doing a production without any battery. I still could do that, the Yashica FX3 only needs a battery for it's exposure-meter, the rest is mechnaical - and who needs to mether the exposure? Only whimps. Real male photogs can sense the light with their urine.
As toni-A's example clearly shows, there's nothing to gain with that old film stuff, especially not in colour negative where the colours will fade away over time.
I just wonder what you guys think to get out of this? The only reason to go film, no, three reasons for me: better and instant archival qualities, artistic reasons to reduce some possibilities or doing a production without any battery. I still could do that, the Yashica FX3 only needs a battery for it's exposure-meter, the rest is mechnaical - and who needs to mether the exposure? Only whimps. Real male photogs can sense the light with their urine.
As toni-A's example clearly shows, there's nothing to gain with that old film stuff, especially not in colour negative where the colours will fade away over time.