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What thick BnW film for easy manual development ? (testing.crazypeople.online)

submitted 3 days ago by m33@lemmy.zip to c/photography@lemmy.ml

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Hello there

I just developed two black and white film rolls. That was a painful experience, because of my bad choice of film:

👿 The Lucky SHD400 is too thin, curling on itself like crazy, slipping on the reel.

🫤 The Lomography earl grey 100 is a bit thicker, better catch on reel’s sides and locking ball.

I wish next rolls will be easier to feed on the reel, any advices ?

Until now nothing beats the Kikipan 320. But it’s not produced anymore.

Asking AI seems only to praise most expensive films, not sure if it is true or biased.

Also I tired asking on the mastodon and associated platform first with not much luck.

Hopefully lemmy is better suited for that kind of open question ?

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[–] m33@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

With a total of 4 films developed at home, with bergger one monobath, I haven’t mastered anything yet.

But those last two rolls were almost impossible to load. I will get back on this thread to tell you guys if they were damaged or scratched, I hope not.

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

iirc - I learned the whole thing from Analog Resurgence' video on the subject - he recommended something for practice... I can't remember if it was, the ends of rolls, or, like, already developed strips (seems kinda dangerous so probably not) ... or ... maybe it was in the bulk loader video he had the suggestion and I adapted it to practice the development rolling process too or something ...

I feel like I can remember sitting on the couch with my hands under a blanket or something (I'm sure it wasn't real film so no concerns about spoiling) and just doing it over and over without being able to see ...

I really wish I could remember, but it was a couple years ago now. I guess the long and the short of it though was that practice did indeed make, well, 'better', lol. Honestly not sure how much luck I'd have if I tried today as it has been so long, but at the time I was banging out at least 1-2 rolls per week for a good 3-5 months and got pretty ok at it.

Helped of course doing the bulk rolls, because I could literally just spool up a 12 shot roll or whatever, go for a five minute walk and shoot the whole thing with no remorse of waste (as I may have with 24 or 36 shots) and then do my thing!