r/Darkroom

Recently got a C41 Kodak kit and attempted to develop today. But all of our negatives came out way too dark. And after drying the images pretty much disappeared? I’m not sure what we did wrong, or what steps we might’ve missed? Or we didn’t agitate correctly or washed? Not sure since it was our first time and everything we did came out wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated

I've been developing at home for a couple years now. I developed a couple of rolls a few weeks back and just scanned them in. All frames have weird spots, which are present on the negatives. Has anyone seen anything like this before?

I signed a lease for a 250 sq foot studio space but there is no running water in the unit, there are 3 slop sinks directly outside of the door to the space, less than 20 feet away. Would something like this be a good build for the space? Minus the sink obviously, or does anyone have any better ideas? Appreciate any feedback! Thanks!

I inherited this enlarger and light housing...I am trying to get it back up an running but have never done any darkroom printing so this is all new to me.

1. It looks like the enlarger lens is missing...I don't see it on the bottom of the enlarger...any recommendations?

2. When I put the light housing on top of the enlarger body, plug it into the "light" plug, and turn the side switch (I think this is the master switch) on and off, nothing turns on...do I need a new bulb? Could the enlarger just be broken?

3. If anyone knows where to get information on this Beseler model or would be willing to help I would greatly appreciate it!

I have been shooting film for several months now and am eager to get into printing - I'm told that is the whole point :).

Ditto friends, you either contact print or you don’t

Hi everyone!

I recently had some troubles with my Nikon F3. Since a few months some of my picture had an unexposed area on one side of the negative. Today I decided to shoot a test roll of Foma100 at different shutter speeds to diagnose the problem!

I thought it was shutter capping but now I am not sure anymore.

Now these are the results. I really need help interpreting this, since I am not sure what happened. Some shots are completely underexposed and there is nothing on the negative (it is completely clear). I am wondering about the different exposures since it was in Aperture Priority mode!

Developed myself, Foma100, scanned by myself, Nikkor 35mm f1.4

Im having the hardest time trying to extend my reel from 35mm to 120, is it me or is the one i got not made to extend?

I snagged 100 feet of Lucky 400 to see if it was any good, the first roll was absolutely fine and now the second roll has all these little dark marks all over the images. You can see them on the negative as well as little white spots too. This was developed with 1/25 Rodinal and have never seen this in the years i have been developing film.

Black and white RC print processed in Ilford chemicals. Developer-Stop bath-fix then washed under running water and layed flat to dry. It was then placed in a plastic zip lock bag with a striped pattern which somehow transfered itself to the print. Not fixed for long enough?

I found some negatives from the 90s got them developed. Others came out near perfect, except for these two. I've tried all I can to try to restore them but I'm not sn expert at all. Are they salvageable? What can I do? Thank you in advance

Just venturing back into it after some time out.

Wash routine I’m doing is:

5 min cold running tap water

10 min washaid (intermittent agitation)

30 min cold running tap water.

Sufficient?

Ok to have two prints back to back for each stage?

When bleaching and toning, am I right in thinking the bleach only needs five mins wash? And thiourea 30 mins? I’ve read conflicting things on whether to use washaid when washing after sepia toning.

Did some tests today to assess dry down impact, will see how those look next session. This looks between 1/3 and 1/2 a stop light to me, which I’m hoping will be about right.

I have this print I took with my Canon A1 and TMax 400 (or trix 400, I can't remember) and have been working on this print a bit. I got a pretty good result at the public darkroom with a #1 contrast filter and dodging the bottom for 50% of the exposure.

I got my own enlarger, different than what I had been using, and tried some split grade contrast. I'm looking to minimize the dodge/burn and get the right look, but not sure if I'm heading down the right path.

Exposure details:

- f16

- #0 for 70 seconds (seems grainy and too light still)

- #5 for 15 (still a tad dark)

- Ilford paper and chems

70 seconds for the highlights seems excessive, but I could be wrong. Would it be better to use different contrast filters? Or opening up a bit? Or just use a single grade and dodge as needed? I'm just not the best at using masks yet, but gotta practice sometime!

Any suggestions on what to try next would be awesome!