Develop and Scan Color Film at Home Information

Develop and Scan Color Film at Home by Jeff McLain is designed for photographers who want to have hands-on control over their film development and scanning process.

With a modest amount of basic equipment, you can develop your own color negative film at home and then use your digital camera and software to scan and reverse the negative.

DETAILS

I hope that these five videos will give you everything you need to develop your own color negative film at home using Cinestill C41 chemistry – and then scanning film using your own digital camera!

Supplies List for Developing:

1. Exposed 35mm or 120 film
2. Dark film-changing tent or a dark room
3. Patterson 3-Reel tank
4. Patterson reels (3 for 35mm or 2 for 120)
5. Cinestill C-41 liquid chemistry kit (develops appx 40 rolls)
6. (2-3) Graduated pitchers
7. (3) accordion bottles
8. (1) small tub from Ace Hardware or other
9. (1) Sous vide from Amazon or other retailer
10. (1) food grade temperature gauge (the turkey stab-in kind)
11. (1) small ladle
12. (1) medium rag
13. (1) small rag
14. (1) gallon of distilled water
15. (1) Pack of 10 little film-hanging clips

Supplies List for Scanning:

1. Copy stand that can hold your digital camera
2. Macro lens, or 50mm lens and Kenko extension tube (these are ideal, but with wider lenses you will just have to crop in more – longer lenses may not let you focus close enough – a 50 with a Kenko tube is an excellent way to get “macro” without the cost of a macro lens.
3. Cinestill “Skier” or other light box
4. Your developed film in archival sleeves for safe-keeping
5. SD or CF card (if not tethering to software)
6. Tether cable (if tethering to software)
7. Either Capture One Pro and Adobe Photoshop – or Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop – or just one of these if using only SD/CF card
8. Compressed canned air
9. Optional Lightroom Plug-in of “Negative Lab Pro” but this work can be done in Photoshop without the Plug-in, too.
10. Optional but helpful – Kinetronics Ministat film brush

What You’ll Learn In Develop and Scan Color Film at Home?

• Mixing and Developing with C41 Chemistry
• Film Scanning with Capture One Pro software
• Film Scanning with Adobe Lightroom software
• Scanning 35mm film
• Reversing Negative to Positive with Adobe Photoshop

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