AboutMartin Seymour Expertise I have worked in most aspects of still photography, using film and the wet process for 50 years. Employing all film formats 35mm to 8x10 sizes, I went over partly to digital cameras in 02, also PC editing of pictures.
I still find film work more demanding , as you have to get it right at the start with no auto settings on the camera to cover my mistakes.
Pictorial work is my personal interest.
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Expert: Martin Seymour Date: 7/14/2008 Subject: processing film
Question i want to learn how to view film before taking it to get developed, without loosing the pictures. i was hoping someone could help me learn how to do this.
thanks,
javier
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Question:
i want to learn how to view film before taking it to get developed, without loosing the pictures. i was hoping someone could help me learn how to do this.
HI Javier.
Sorry but i don’t quite understand the question. The only way you can view the film before having the prints made is to process the film first yourself or have it processed by a shop without any prints being made.
Then you can see all the good negatives first? And not waist money on the not so good shots?
To developed the film yourself is not difficult, but too long a job to write up here i would suggest you get a book on the subject as this will be a lot easer.
But basically: -
In the dark: -
1 load film into tank -fix lid. --Switch on the light!
2 poor in developer solution, and leave for set time, agitating at fixed intervals.
3 poor out developer and poor in fix solution and leave for set time.
4 poor out fix and wash film for 30 minutes in running water.
5 dry film carefully.
6 view negatives.
