Film processing

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I am doing a paper on processing my own film, so i was wondering how exatly do you processs your own film?

-- Kari DeShaw (KDeShaw@excite.com), September 25, 2001

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I can't help but ask, What exactly is the subject of the paper? I hope it's not a "how to" on processing your own film. Most libaries have books which cover the basics. It's kind of hard to list the steps here in the proper detail when just about any photography book has them. In addition most books give you a little background in the theory or purpose of each step. Good luck on your paper.

-- william nagel (wdnagel@home.com), September 25, 2001.

I would suggest doing a paper or something you are more familiar with. Failing that, maybe you should go to the library and do some research?

-- Jorge Gasteazoro (jorgegm@worldnet.att.net), September 25, 2001.

Students don't write their own papers anymore. They find one on the internet.

-- Michael Feldman (mfeldman@qwest.net), September 25, 2001.

Try this site

-- sam smith (Ruy_Lopez@hotmail.com), September 26, 2001.

Sorry about that, I'll try again. Click here

-- sam smith (Ruy_Lopez@hotmail.com), September 26, 2001.


Kari:

It is a pleasure to assist you to find what you need, without being told off.

Go to www.kodak.com and follow the links to their lessons on darkroom work, complete with lessons and assignements.

There are very few dumb questions, but more often, dumb answers.

Cheers Good Luck

-- RICHARD ILOMAKI (richardjx@hotmail.com), October 01, 2001.


Richard,

You didn't answer his question. Ken specifically asked how you process YOUR OWN film. If he wanted a link, I am sure he could have found many using a search engine.

-- Michael Feldman (mfeldman@qwest.net), October 01, 2001.


No offence guys, but this is why I rarely post questions on this site. Some of us are amatures, and tender hearted ones at that. Who knows, Karri might be another one hooked on photography after writing her paper and giving it a try. Believe me I love humor and sarcasm in it's place, but not when it's hurtful. Kudos Sir Richard for being human!

-- Janet K. (photojanet2256@cs.com), October 01, 2001.

Janet, I wasn't trying to be sarcastic or hurtful to anyone. You seem to be projecting all kinds of assumptions about what Kari really wants without, to my knowledge, any facts to back it up. I have personally spent hundreds of hours answering questions on these forums and on Internet newsgroups for complete strangers. This sometimes includes my having to do additional research to answer the question, for which I have received many personal e-mails thanking me.

But I do not think it is legitimate for a complete novice (not really sure if this applies to Kari) to ask open-ended questions like "tell me how you do film processing" unless they have done at least some research themselves. And I would expect that a student (who unlike me, has presumably grown up with computers) would know how to do a simple search on the Internet. When I typed in "B&W film development" at www.google.com (yahoo would also work) I got back hundreds of sites that had detailed explanations on how to develop film, some with photographs. Almost all of these sites were 10 times better than the Kodak site. And there is something called a library that just might contain information for beginners. Not to mention the archive section of this forum. It is absolutely true that there are no “stupid” questions, but there are some lazy ones. Possibly the most important thing that Kari can learn from this "encounter", is not how to develop film, but how to do research.

Janet, if you have a "dumb" question (but not a completely open-ended one), many of us would be glad to help you out, because we all know that many things in photography can be very confusing and subject to matters of opinion, about which reasonable people can disagree.

-- Michael Feldman (mfeldman@qwest.net), October 02, 2001.


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