Black & White Developing vs Color Developing / Which One's Easier to Start With As a Beginner??
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2024
- Herewith a new video on black and white developing vs color developing. It's very hard to determine which one's easier to start with as a beginner. In this video, I'll be sharing my thoughts on what I think is easier after a year of developing my own film as well as using the lab. I'll be sharing my experience from when I was a new beginner film photography developer using CineStill's one solution mono bath. I'll be sharing tips and tricks for beginner film photographers who are looking to start developing their own film from home. This is not a how-to-develop film from home video, this is a recommendation video on what type of film to start developing with. The process I'll be sharing is meant to be fast and easy to do especially as a beginner. Film photography can be very expensive and developing 35mm film or 120 film from home can save you so much money and time. C41 developing has its pros and cons. Black and white developing also has its pros and cons but after this video, it should be easier to narrow down the least intimidating film developing method. Hope this video helps all beginner film photographers!
Thank you for watching and I hope this video helped!
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WHAT DO YOU THINK IS EASIER??? AND WHY?? WHAT WOULD YOU ADD TO MY THOUGHTS??
I agree, I think black and white is still easier even if you don't use a monobath, because when developing color film you do have to worry about the accuracy of your temperatures. Whoever is reading this just make sure you dispose of your chemicals properly as outlined by the area of which you live in. I forget with black and white but with color you cannot just dump them down the drain because the fixer will contain silver which is bad for the environment.
B dub all the way, you can’t mess it up if you are using d76 1+1 or original soup. It’s easier to maintain cool than maintain heat
A uniroller helps with developing
Love it dude! I started with B&W developing in high school but when I got back into film almost 2 years ago I jumped right into color developing! Developing yourself makes getting the images so much more satisfying
I'm a photographer looking to get into film, and this is the video I needed to see!! I've been doing research and learning bits and pieces here and there, but your video put everything together in a concise and clear way. Thank you so much Shingie!
My development store can develop colour film in one day but need ten days to develop b&w film I'd of thought it would of been simpler and quicker with b&w film?
Hey man! Thumbs up for your channel! You mentioned that the fixer and stopper can be reused on B&W film. How many times around? Cheers
C-41 is probably the easiest, provided you keep your temperature and times correct. E6 is a bit harder because it is even less tolerant in deviations in temperature or incorrect agitation during the first step. Black and white is not exact science, but with a multitude of different options for developing the same film, with no standardized process. Everyone has their opinion which developer or agitation pattern is the best, in which dilution. All color processes are standardized, and it means you do it correctly or you screw up. Nothing else is possible. I have dome more color since the late 1980's than black and white, and I think producing a good color print is a bit easier than printing a perfect black and white print. Every print is an interpretation of the person making it, but in black and white, there are no standards for a good pictures. It is a matter of opinion. In color, if the colors are off, it is a bad print.
For beginners, starting with black and white can be cheaper. Color film is more expensive, but color paper in big rolls is cheaper. Also, color chemistry in bigger quantities is quite cheap. For printing color, you will need to buy more equipment, and it costs more than for black and white. Color enlargers can be used for both color and b&w though. And most of the younger folks are not interested in printing, but they scan, and publish their photography in the social media. There are many things you can do with film. Even slides framed and projected by a slide projector are possible..
I am not very interested in any of the simplified processes, as these always compromise the quality in order to be "easy". Even proper 6 bath E6 is not hard - it just takes 45 minutes, and many steps, but it is not hard.
This is gonna help me so much, gonna learn how to develop film through you, thank you Shingie :)
You are so welcome!
I had so-so results with monobath ... I got lazy in my old age and do Rodinal 1:100 and stand develop B&W film for 1 hour!!!
Omg dude, I was literally talking to my buddy about it today when talking about utilizing your films maximum capability of retaining light at a certain speed *us trying to understand film* - Would you mind teaching me about the long-developing time?? apparently, according to my buddy, the developer develops highlights and actually stops when the highlights are done and starts lifting the black.. I really want to learn from your expertise.
@@Shingie That's basically it, the heavily diluted developer gets exhausted on the highlights and then keeps on developing the shadows until it's all depletes ... my way of doing it is mix 10ml of Rodinal with 900 ml of water. Agitate for the first 30 ... bang it to remove bubble and then at 30 minutes agitate again, five inversions and then at 60 minutes, drain and continue to stop and fixer. Wash normally and bang you have great negatives. Some people think it makes the film grainer, but with medium format, less an issue than with 35mm!!!
I think I’m the beginning, loading your film on the reel in a dark bag might be the hardest. In regards to chemicals, using the c-41 method, warming is most annoying, but necessary. But all in the name of film love.
B&W is far easier, but there are some tricky Black and White film stocks - Like - Adox Scala 50, which is a black and white slide film, a great B&W film but its only available in 135.
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I find it easy to do color c41. I'm scared of BW 😑😑😑🥺🥺
Brother, omg.. how are you doing man!? 😩
@@Shingie I'm doing good man, just busy 😊😊😊😊