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:
- Exposed 35mm or 120 film
- Dark film-changing tent or a dark room
- Patterson 3-Reel tank
- Patterson reels (3 for 35mm or 2 for 120)
- Cinestill C-41 liquid chemistry kit (develops appx 40 rolls)
- (2-3) Graduated pitchers
- (3) accordion bottles
- (1) small tub from Ace Hardware or other
- (1) Sous vide from Amazon or other retailer
- (1) food grade temperature gauge (the turkey stab-in kind)
- (1) small ladle
- (1) medium rag
- (1) small rag
- (1) gallon of distilled water
- (1) Pack of 10 little film-hanging clips
Supplies List for Scanning:
- Copy stand that can hold your digital camera
- 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.
- Cinestill “Skier” or other light box
- Your developed film in archival sleeves for safe-keeping
- SD or CF card (if not tethering to software)
- Tether cable (if tethering to software)
- Either Capture One Pro and Adobe Photoshop – or Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop – or just one of these if using only SD/CF card
- Compressed canned air
- Optional Lightroom Plug-in of “Negative Lab Pro” but this work can be done in Photoshop without the Plug-in, too.
- 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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