Russian spiral processing tanks

Processing of a cine film.

Whether a beginner or a skilled cameraman, unloading your 1st or 100th film you really should consider developing your own film in a home made lab. The standard processing of a film in a commercial film lab does not give you the opportunity to maximise the potential of your film.

Experimenting with the standard procedures of processing of a film or using special procedures can help you achieve special expressive effects, which would not be duplicted in a commercial lab. Only individual, manual processing of a film allows you to realise the full to use potential of a film.

You can see information about home film processing, manual film processing, processing Super 8, Double 8, 16 mm, 35 mm films, B&W negative, B&W reversal, color negative, color reversal films.

The individual, manual processing of a film in a home laboratory is a first step on the road to achieving the full range of cinematic skills.

That a necessary for processing of a film in home film-laboratories.

3. Processing Equipmnet

5 steps to processing your film:

1. Study the technology of film processing

2 Load the film into a spiral then load the spiral with a film into the processing tank. This can be very tricky to achieve in darkness!

3 Prepare the processing solutions

4 Again, study film processing in detail

5 Your film will soon be ready for editting into a finished picture