I remember taking photography class in high school back in 78.The dark room experience was phenomenal! Thank you for the memories.

Doing C-4 on your first go at film developing? AMAZING. Haha. Just gonna share some of my opinions. I've done countless rolls of BnW but never colour. 1) LOVE how you did the overlay of the darkbag when loading the film. Best visualization of loading film in a dark bag everrr 2) A favourite method for agitation used by many including me is to invert WITH a twist. So you hold the top of the tank in one hand and the bottom in the other, and as you invert it, you give it a little twist. Also! Always, always, always, give the tank a little tap or double tap on a surface after filling it with any liquids or after agitation, this is to remove air bubbles on the surface of the film from the agitation//pouring. They can leave marks (due to under development) if the air bubbles are on the film too long over the course of the development. 3) be careful with the film squeegee, I never used one and technically it is not needed, if you're not careful, a little piece of sand on the squeegee can scratch the entire roll of film while you squeegee it. What I like to do is just after hanging the film, rinse more "Photoflo" or whatever you used for your final rinse over the hanging film to make sure it's coated with water evenly so it dries evenly.. It may take a little longer but I just dont trust squeegeeing my film. Amazing video and can't wait for you guys to explore medium format and then large format and then shooting Polaroids WITH large format!! Sorry I'm getting ahead of myself haha. Btw I have a feeling you've been metering a little under.. The film photos you display in the beginning I would consider underexposed unless that is the look you are going for. I would try rating at half box speed the next time around and see if you like the results better. And congrats on the marriage!! Finally, I notice you don't label your negative sleeves? I have an archival system worked out using codes on the negatives matching tags in Lightroom of the film scans. If you'd like to hear abt that I'll gladly share.

0:36 “we’ve been missing out on one of the most beautiful and intresting steps” 5:53 “it’s disgusting” ❤️

developing the film is literally the most fun part , I don't get how people DONT always develop at home

We just uploaded a blog post with a bunch of the photos from this roll to our website if you guys want to see how they turned out! plantbasedtraveler.com/film-photography/ Thanks so much for all your support in the comments :) We can't wait to share more with you next week ❤

This is soo cool! They should teach this in school like a art-science project

I’m so happy that film photography is coming back. It’s a nice thing.

My beginning photography class began with shooting and developing film. I think they begin with film so we will appreciate the versatility, flexibility, and speed of digital photography.

It was not as complicated as I thought it would be. Remember John developing his own black and white in college. Can't wait to see the next video--was hoping we could see some of the pictures developed.

its more easy to pull the spool apart then have to pull it out. its awsome seeing the images actually come up and always puts a smile on your face

j'ai développé le négatif pendant 20 ans !! Le numérique quel bonheur Entre le maintient de la température ,les gouttes d'eau au séchage,et après les poussières sur le négatifs et j'en oublie !!

Yes! I love this channel and have seen other videos on how to develop film at home, but I've been waiting for someone to do it in a more professional and artistic way. And you've satisfied us again! Thanks you two!!!

You guys are so inspiring. Just asked my dad if he has an old camera. Et voila he just gave me his old canon ae1 with the 50mm. I'm starting now shooting on film just because of you guys. Already tried it a few Days now and it's so much fun. Also bought myself "the power of now", as it has so many recommendations on the Internet. Thanks for the Inspiration!

This process is so cool, because it reminds me of the work I used to do with my father. I am so proud of you guys.

didnt know Mac DeMarco is into analog photography

1. Music is dope 2. well edited 3. really glad I learned this today lol two thumbs up

Welcome to the easiest and fastest type of developing! A few pointers if I might, from someone who’s been doing this for 3 years now: Agitation is by inversions for the first 10 seconds of every 30, including at the beginning of the developer. You can heat all your bottles up together in the same bath and once the developer is warm enough you can remove all the bottles and start developing. Since the developer is only for 3mins 30secs, and the blix has a temperature tolerance of +\- 5F, there’s no risk of it cooling down to where it won’t work. Stabilizer can be at room temp but best practices suggest keeping your temperature range close to avoid damage to the emulsion. Check out the Ilford wash method if you haven’t. Stabilizer is for only 60 secs and it’s important not to wash after that because the stabilizer is an anti-fungal to prevent baddies from nomming on your negs. As the developer and blix age you will get floaties in them. A funnel with a filter is essential. I used to swear by squeegees too until I got two rolls of scratched negs. One with a sponge style and one with the rubber style. Finger squeegees it is!!

You guys have the best timing. I'm looking around for different chemicals and trying to decide what to go with. I'll keep this video in mind and definitely come back to watch it time and time again when I start developing at home.

for anyone who goes into developing their C41 or other films. check the temperature of the chemicals (not the au-bain-marie temp.) and use a thermometer for every chemical, so you don't contaminate the different fluids. With a sous-vide you can get the fluids nearly to the desired temperature, and don't forget to tap the drum, to get rid of the airbubbels in the drum. I have developed in the past more the 30K films.

The end results are stunning! Just wanted to thank you guys for really inspiring me to shoot on film - just sent off my first roll for developing. Hopefully soon I'll be able to develop at home!!

so BITTERLY DISAPPOINTING i didnt get to see the finished photo.. i feel like ive been robbed !

So my cousin and I bought a 1983 Olympus OM-30 and we've got black and white. I can't much remember about camera films but I remember the film being developed so I freaked out when I rewind the film and it looked blank... turns out "developing" is the process of getting the negatives... Not the printing lol. Anyway, I love love love this video!!! Very awesome, takes me back when I was in grade school.

I took b/w photography at Parsons School of Design back in 1994, loved it. Now I practice digital.

There is no greater gift than seeing your first roll of film developed, unfortunate with digital, no chance unless you take a college course.

I do the exact same process, it's beautiful to see it filmed. Thank you!

Oh the suspense! I hope you have good air circulation in the bathroom ;)

I send you a lot of love, guys.❤ Every Tuesday I wait for your videos.

I noticed all of these young youtubers teaching how to do this. Just a word from an older person: C-41 - DEVELOPING COLOR FILM IS TOXIC, I cannot stress this enough. I am a color film photographer and I'd love to develop at home, but a lot of people that use to do it died from cancer. Also, if anyone reading this is planning to do it, make sure you have a system to get rid of chemicals (and I don't mean throwing it down the drain, I mean calling figuring out who you need to call to make sure that doesn't end up in the water).

Thank you, for answering my questions! I'm soo glad that you are so responsible to all requests! Thank you!

I am super grateful for your videos about How to shoot on film specially with canon AV1, I just got one from my father and I was very clueless as to how to go about shooting on it but your videos have been amazingly informative please continue to upload similar videos about shooting on film I will look forward for it thank you!😇👍🏻🤙🏻

Thanks...just bought the same kit-over here in Wales in the UK.Never developed colour-or color as you spell it in the States-before. Did B&W years ago. Doesn't look too complicated. Some good pointers...cheers.

Cinematography, use of music, explanation, and purpose all well executed in this video. Defiantly have convinced me to develope at home and am really excited to do so!

so funny, yesterday i got my first roll back. i saw your video about the A-1 with the 1.4 lens and found that exact same camera for a really reasonable price... thank you! GREAT TIMING :D

Once again, you guys always blow me away! I love these videos about film. Thanks for all the tips :)

This was such a nice video to watch! Developing film can be such a boring process, but you made it very pleasant to watch, calming almost :) Lou's super cool whale tattoo helped too, haha! I caught myself staring at it a lot. Keep it up guys :)

Whooooooa! Congratulations on developing your first roll, Lou! I hope someday I could also learn how to develop my on film rolls.

Voiceless process of developing film is really good ASMR - change my mind

Thank you for the video! I have been planning to develop my own C41 photos withouth film processor. You two just made everything clear.

I do black and white film developing in college and honestly I was expecting the colour developing to be so much more complicated - they're pretty much the same aside from the whole making each chemical the same temperature

Thank you so much. You make that look very easy and I know it wasn't. But those negatives look terrific.

I can't wait to develop my first roll of film, it's this process that makes you appreciate film photography even more. I really like your film camera, I have a canon f-1 and a yashica electro 35 gsn. I really enjoy watching your videos!!

Thanks for your video! Please remember to wear gloves and respirators. as far as I know, stabilizer has formaldehyde which is known to cause cancer. better to develop film in a good air circulating room.

Every time I come back to you channel it is like going through a box of surprises...I always find something exciting. =) thank you guys I was expecting a new video up today...=(

i really liked this video and also think that you've done the right choice and started developing color first. Even though everyone says black and white is easyer, in color you just need to take care with the temperature and time, with black and white there are a lot more variatiables (in developers, film types makes the developing times different, and so on and so on) that you can get wrong. both are very easy, but color is easyer in my opinion

awesome video! it is really easy once you get over the anxiety of that first roll. I use a couple sous vide machines to keep my water right at temp, one less thing to worry about

Reminds me of high school photog classes. The sound of plastic and liquids everywhere first thing in the morning 😂

I just finished my first roll of film today! I'm so excited! Can't wait to get it developed :D

that changing bag overlay is such a sweet shot visual! Hope to try to do that someday hahaha

omg, now I want to reorganize my negatives! your system seems to be so satisfying!

How this channel doesn't have more subscribers I don't know, just discovered your videos today and I am soo in love with your style!

I've just come across this channel and can honestly say it's beautiful

Awesome video! Love how you did the overlay of the changing bag to show what happens inside.

Hi, I develop my c-41 film as well, my best advice would be to heat up water on the oven and use it to warm the chemicals. You can mix the same water with cooler one, to do the first bath. About the agitation, try also to rotate the tank, while inverting it, smooth movements are helping. I encourage you to where gloves, nitrtile are the best ones, all the chemicals are somewhat nasty in the long run....try my advice, is the best way to avoid wasting water!

that was so satisfying when you 1st unrolled the developed film and saw the pictures lol great jobs guys

Great video! I've only done c-41 once - it's getting the temperature perfect that made me stick to B&W self processing. Great job for a first attempt. Put some gloves on!

Your desk is beautiful and also the sounds of the different things you are handling very arty!

try cutting the spool off before loading it onto the reel and tap the tank a little every time after you agitate. gets rid of water spots or bubbles that can get onto your film.

i looove the pictures both of you take! It inspires me so much! Sending kisses from Argentina!

It is far more simple than most realise> Keeping the chemicals at 30C is easy enough. I keep my bottles in a plastic tub just like you. Another tub contains water for wash/rinse. No fumes Old Cameras.

I can't believe you tried color first, hats off, great video

Great video!!!!!, Could you provide links to where you could get the supplies used in the the video please?

just found your videos and i'm in love with them. great content, great shooting and set up.

That’s cool never thought you could do colour film at home

I never knew how those old negatives work!! Awesome !!!

Nice video guys! Been anticipating your next 35mm film video for a while!

First time watching a video from your channel. Loved it! And thanks for showing the whole process

the best part of film photography is this one, the only thing that i hate was the smell of it hahahah.. but the feeling of doing a great job when you see the negatives is just amazing.. its good thing when i was at highschool we have this class😂😂..

Beautifully made...thank you so much for sharing!

2:30 that scene was super cool how u show what to do inside the sleevebag👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Loved the video, and oh I'm so happy you're reading Murakami! I'm reading Rashomon by Akutagawa. :)

Please please please post some of the pictures from this batch! I'd love to see how they turned out!

What’s not to like? Great video, thanks. 👍

Wow! That was really interesting to watch! Lou's done great job and you Dana filming the process! And I couldn't stop admiring Lou's tattoos 😀 Also I do actually remember having developers at home and I found them so strange. And I really liked the photo of Dana sitting at the desk , it was simple beauty I love it. Your videos are such a pure bliss out here in KZfaq because of lots reasons but overall you're just great, Tuesday's quickly become the day I'm waiting for every day 😊 And answering your question from the description box, I'm currently reading Portraits of a Marriage by Sandor Marai and I'm planning to start reading Power of Now soon 😀 Have a very happy, productive and amazing week, Dana & Lou 💖! PS it's the last winter month, isn't it crazy? Jan has gone by so quickly, feels like New Year's day was only yesterday... 😱

Loved your video and your channel! Let me know if you guys ever come back to Perú so I can show you guys around Lima :)

Stumbled upon your video. Way coool! Now I'll have to dig out my ol' Nikon FM2. :) Thank you.

if this didnt have music this would be an awesome asmr video haha. thanks so much this was so wonderful to watch! i have been opening my canisters with scissors not can openers this whole time!

VERY NICE! They shouted!

the good old days of film processing

Beautiful video as always! Where'd you get that developing kit?

Definitely going to start developing my own film, decided to get a lab to do them until I'm more confident in case there is any any prints I can sell to raise money for the charity I work for. I think I may run off a couple of rolls of the cat and try with them. As usual a brilliant video

Great video! Fantastic sounds quality and presentation. Thank you for sharing.

I would be curious to know what you think of your scanned photos. I used that same scanner and really did not like the results. It made some really beautiful photos look really bad.

Totally inspired me to develop my own film.

I've been saving money for camera gear, lenses and a body. I'm giving serious thought to working in film.

Very cool vid! Great to see the process. Still seems like more work than I want to take on right now, but maybe once I have a bigger place to do it in. Thanks for sharing!

you dont need to fill up the whole tank if you just develping 1 roll of film its need just 350 ml and 550ml for 2 rolls at the same time. You just wasted som developers and money

That was so much easier than I expected it to be. I have like 6 rolls of film I need to get developed. Might try to do it myself I guess

Awesome! I've been looking at getting a development kit myself, great video! :)

I remember my first time developing C41 :) BW is less hustle with temperature, but dev times are different for every stock/iso. So it's a mess in a different way. You may want to do stabilizer _outside_ the tank unless you clean it really good. STAB makes it sticky.

really want to try it out by myself. however it's a little bit tricky to treat or deal with the waste fluids in my country. pity. you guys have fun, good day.

Un dia no muy lejano espero hacer lo mismo en casa. Saludos!!

You guys totally rock... tjeez...... this is awesome! Great editing btw. Cheers!

Nice video. I JUST posted a similar one on the equipment I use. Glad to see there's others helping break the myth that Color is harder than B&W.

was wondering where you bought your kit to develop the film? thank you!

Fun stuff! I've only done B&W and am looking forward to playing with color developing soon

This is so satisfying to watch. Love the film.

AWESOME AWESOME VIDEO! one of the best i've seen so far on KZfaq! great great work! you got yourself a new subscriber!

Doing the same exact process atm!! First time ever developing will lyk how mine ends up :)

Thanks for using Tetenal! James

there is a very good app for timing the process called Dev it. You can create your own time frame for developing and save it so that you don't have to think about it.