Home Developing and Coloring

[Thomastaco]

So I have looked into how to develop my own 35mm film at home which ends in black and white photography. Is there a way for people to develop them with color at home?

[wulf]

More equipment and more chemicals. I've never even done BW development at home but understand that colour work is signficantly more complex (if you want to work with film rather than digital processing).

Wulf

[OsmosisStudios]

Originally Posted by wulf

More equipment and more chemicals. I've never even done BW development at home but understand that colour work is signficantly more complex (if you want to work with film rather than digital processing).

Wulf

Oh yeah.

BW film development is easy-peasy. You have 3 chemicals that you run your film through (developer, stop, fix). Its basically just "place film in canister, fill with chem A, mix for x seconds, repeat for other chems". Really, the hardest thing is getting the room for it set up.

Color is a whole new ball game. Its cost prohibitive to do it yourself if youve got a decent lab within reach.

[edbayani]

if you can process b/w, you can process color. (slides or negatives} the problem is cost. a E6 kit can process 15 rolls of 35mm 36exp of ektachrome, it comes with instructions that is so easy to follow. after the first roll the chemicals degrade so you must have at least more than ten to process in a week or your money goes down the drain. it also takes time and you must have a temperature bath to immerse your steel developing tanks to maintain the 100 deg F temperature which is critical during the first developer because this is the time that it brings up the image.
i've done this before when i was still active in advertising photography. all kinds of processing.

[OsmosisStudios]

Colour is considerably more temperamental though. It's usually not worth the effort.