You know, This never even occurred to me. Even though I used to process slide film for precisely this reason. I alway thought B&W = darkroom. Funny how your mind makes associations and just sticks to them. This also means that I can start to process my own black & white too. After all, I've got the dark bathroom. Just nowhere to set up for printing. Which leads me to my next question - Say I did my own processing, are the local labs likely to be able to make prints or will they have to send the negs away just like now when they send the film away to be processed? Yes, I know, ask them. I went down to my local shop yesterday. It turned out they were closed for "stocktaking" . Yeah, right. Some sort of minor "football" game on TV and all the blokes go stocktaking.
Wendy At 21:44 2-2-2002 -0500, you wrote: >From: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Kodak Tmax 100 pro Processing > >Jim ... > >You don't need a darkroom to process B&W film. All you need is a dark >room, or even a changing bag. > >I use a bathroom at night. Close the door, douse the lights, and load >the developing tanks. I then process the film in my kitchen, where I >use the timer on the microwave to keep track of things. I'd use the >bathroom, or even my darkroom, but I like the kitchen because of the >microwave timer and because I can listen to music on the stereo while >developing the film, and play with my cats. And I'll let you in on a >little secret - you don't even need running water to wash the film, so, >in theory, with just a few bottles of water and a tub to pour out the >used chemicals and rinse water, you can process film in your car. In >fact, Weegee used to do just that, processing his nightly work in the >trunk of his old Dodge coupe. > >If money is tight, that may be all the more reason to save it and do >your own processing. > >If you're interested, I'd be happy to help get you set up and walk you >through the whole process step by step. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
