Processing Black and White photos

Things You'll Need:

• Negative Storage Files
• Stirring Rods
• Thermometers
• Scissors
• Storage Bottles
• Scissors
• Darkroom Timers
• Developing Tank And Reels
• Film-hanging Clips
• Fixer
• Hypo Clearing Agent
• Plastic Graduates
• Stop Bath
• Thermometers

Chemicals:

• Paper Developer: Dektol 

• Stop Bath: Kodak Indicator Stop
• Fixer: Heico NH-5
• Hypo Wash: Heico Perma Wash

Step by step:

First,remove the film from the cassette. Pull the flat end off the canister with a can opener. Unwind the film and remove the end of the film from the spool by peeling off the tape that connects it. Now load the film on a film reel and place the loaded reel in the film tank and cover it, now it's light proof so turn on the light!!:) Lay out the chemicals in front of you: a film developer, stop bath, and a fixer with hardener, and a hypo eliminator bath.  

Pour developer into the open part of the sealed film tank, and shake it to agitate the chemicals and keep the fresh chemical on top! repeat this for each chemical. Let sit in water for 5 minutes. Next, take the negatives out and hang them up in a dust free area (don't touch!) then in 1-2 hours, you;ll have yourself some film negatives:) Cut them into strips with 6 negatives on each strip and store in negative pages!:)

Equipment:

 Chemicals:

 Paper Developer: Dektol:

 Stop Bath: Kodak Indicator Stop

Fixer: Heico NH-5

 Hypo Wash: Heico Perma Wash

 Definitions:

Contact Sheet: a photo print of your film negatives

Agitation: Keeping a chemical moving: Helps to speed-up and achieve an even development while processing film or paper. It also prevents spotting or staining by keeping the developer, stop bath, or fixer in motion.

Enlarger: a specialized transparency projector used to produce photographic prints from film or glass negatives using the gelatin-silver process, or transparencies.

Developer: Transforms the latent image to a visible image by chemically reducing light struck silver halides to black metallic silver.

Stop Bath: An acidic bath that is used after the developer to stop development and reduce fixer contamination.

Fixer: Chemical used after developing and before washing to remove remaining light-sensitive halides by converting them into soluble salts. An image becomes stable to light once it's fixed.