C-41 Developing – A journey

At home film development has always been a passion of mine. I’ve done plenty of black and white developing in the past, but color developing has always scared me. I always viewed it as some unattainable thing.

NO LONGER

I will be documenting this endeavor in multiple stages:

• Initial research
• darkroom setup
• chemical mixing
• first roll of film developed
• high resolution scans and final thoughts

I started by ordering a 1L kit of c41 chems. Along with some beakers, a long thermometer, and a few light tight containers. Research into developing was a fairly straight forward process. Every blog post and website stated:

• Mix the chemicals at the proper temp and in the proper order
• store in light right containers
• Replenish chemicals when you notice less than ideal developing outcomes.