Since the sink is a bit of a tight space, I place the bottles of developer, blix, and stabilizer in a bin on the floor nearby. The water from the faucet in the photos runs pretty hot, easily over the necessary 102° Fahrenheit/38.8° Celsius needed to develop.

I start running the faucet on hot for a few minutes to let the water warm up. They also have a wonderful podcast that you should be listening to if you are not already!

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Plastic Bin (big enough to fit the bottles).

Thermometer (I personally use a digital one).

Patterson Super System 4 Development Tank.

It’s easy, just read and follow the directions that come in the box or check that Lomography article I linked to above. Anyway, let’s get started. I will also be skipping over the chemical set up process. I’m going to try to be as succinct as possible, but I will also add some notes, caveats, and justifications to my process. The point of this post is to show you that this is not as hard as it seems and that you can do this on your own at home if you really wanted to give it a shot.Īlso, my process is in no way original and is mostly based off of the very well documented and self explanatory tutorial that was published by Lomography ( Part 1 & Part 2) I enjoy the results I get and they are good enough for me regardless of the (most likely unnecessary) issues I encounter by not putting in the correct safeguards (a constant water temperature would definitely be one of them). It’s definitely unique and I like to think there’s some beauty in that. My process is haphazard, but it is my process. However, I think we will be just fine moving forward. Instead, I’ll be using a drop sink and counterspace at my job, where I instruct my students to develop film. Unfortunately, it’s not as authentic as my Instagram bio. Fortunately, for this tutorial I had a lot more space than my bathtub. Since I have picked up a bit of a following since starting both platforms, I have fielded several inquires regarding my “bath-tub” centered C41 process I proclaim to use in my Now.Developing Instagram account. The whole idea behind my Instagram account as well as this blog is to showcase the images that I have hand-developed myself.

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