I'm not sure if they're thick, but I've done a couple flavours of Ilford, and a LOT of Flic Film UltraPan 400 as I bought a HUGE bulk reel and loader to make my own rolls. Neither seemed abnormally difficult? Just the roughly expected amount of difficult at first, as I had never done any of this before! Once I got the hang of it though it was pretty smooth sailing.
hyacin
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I've got the robot vacuum of Theseus here... early, 2nd or 3rd gen Roomba I guess it is, I've probably had since 2009 or so I think. I've replaced damn near all of it, and I'm ALWAYS shocked when something new breaks, I check online, and I can get a part and replace it! And often times the replacement ends up being an upgrade too. I think it must have come from the Twilight Zone or something, I don't know.
What is the Opera version of this? 🤔
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!