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Film mrdevon
i've fallen in love with film while at school. but here i'm spoiled. and i'm graduation soon.
i know i want to invest in a B&W dark room set-up asap, but as far as color C-41 and chrome E-6 film how do most of y'all get yours processed/printed?

do you mail your film out to be specially processed? take it to your local Ritz camera/whatever. and what about medium and large format?

and do you scan your own film or use picture CDs from the lab?
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>> Anonymous
I set up a darkroom in the bathroom, put the film in a tank, put the liquids in, shake, empty it, scan the negative with our scanner.

takes about half an hour all in all.
>> Anonymous
What are the shelf lives of some of the common liquid concentrates? I'm in the market for some new darkroom chemicals and I'm wondering if it's a good idea or not to use liquid stock solutions.

I probably develop 1-2 rolls per month, and no paper (I use the university's darkroom chemicals for making prints). Will my concentrated chemicals go bad before I get the chance to use them all up? What are the expiry dates on them like?

I also have some butane gas I will use to store them (denser than air, settles over the liquid surface and stops oxidization). My main reason for wanting to switch to liquid-only TMax and liquid fixer is that I just got a lot of tmax films and I'm debating whether throwing them in D-76 is a waste.
>> Lynx !!KY+lVSl0s2m
>>106008
Never head of anyone trying that with the butane, sounds like a plan. The tmax under the bathroom sink is probably past its prime, I haven't shot film since my mom dropped my canon and damaged my only lens. I don't think a bottle of tmax is good for more than maybe 15 rolls anyway, I was shooting about 1 roll every 5-6 days, so it worked out pretty good.
>> Anonymous
>>106061
tetenal used to make a storage gas spray product but it was discontinued. it was basically just butane gas in a easy-to-use spray can. they claimed it can double the standard life of developer as long as it's stored in a normally air-tight, opaque container.
>> des
>>106008
HC110 keeps pretty good in concentrate form, I'm not certain of shelf-life once it's mixed. I've never had a problem with lost potentcy after a couple months though.
>> Anonymous
Develop B/W yourself.

I use D76 right now, but I'm fed up with it's finicky nature and am switching to Diafine.