Processing Black and White Photos

Equipment

Negative Storage Files

Stirring Rods

Thermometers

Scissors

Storage Bottles

Scissors

Darkroom Timers

Developing Tank And Reels

Film-hanging Clips

Fixer

Hypo Clearing Agent

Plastic Graduates

Stop Bath

Thermometers

Chemicals

Developer

Stop Bath

Fixer

Summary

• Go into a room with no light! Open the canister with a can opener. Unroll the film and break off the piece the piece at the end. Put the film in the reel and roll it up. Put it in the developing tank and close it, make sure no light go's in. Then turn on the light.
• Remove the top lid off the developing tank. Pour in 4 oz of developer into a graduated cylinder and then fill it up, up to 32 oz but the rest with water (not hot water, but warm). Agitate the tank for 30 seconds and then let sit rest for 6.5 minutes if your temperature is about 75 degrees. Pour out the liquid.
• Pour in stop bath until it fills up and agitate for two minutes then let sit for two minutes. Pour it out.
• Fill up all the way with fixer. Agitate for 1 minute and let sit for 1 minute. Pour fixer back into its bottle.
• Remove the lid and let water run in it for 15 mintues. Then add wetting agent to the water to expedite the drying. Remove the film from the tank.
• Attach a clip to the end of the film, pull the film off the reel and attach another clip at the opposite end.
• Hang the film in a dry, dust-free area. Store dry negatives in plastic negative sleeves.



Contact sheet

A contact print, usually of all frames of a developed roll of negative print film, used as a proof print.

Agitation

The act of moving something vigorously; the shaking or stirring of something.

Enlarger

an apparatus used for making projection prints, having a head for holding, illuminating, and projecting a film negative and a bed for holding a sheet of sensitized printing paper.

Developer

A solution of a chemical reducing agent that converts the latent image recorded in the emulsion of a film or paper into a visible image.

Stop Bath

An acid bath or rinse for stopping the action of a developer before fixing a negative or print.

Fixer

A solution containing one or more chemical compounds that is used, in fixing, to dissolve unexposed silver halides. It sometimes has an additive to stop the action of developer.