I realized that I never actually posted this. Back in January I had the honor of learning from a master developer, on how to develop and print Black and White Film. The experience was fun actually, and I’ll admit I was a little nervous when I started the processing, if the shots I had taken would even work, or if I screwed something up. I was using my old Yashica, which does have shutter problems in the cold weather.
But after pulling the negs out I was pleasantly surprised that it had actually worked! Aside from some issues along the edges, probably due to loading/unloading the film in the bright sun (it was a clear sunny day at the Pit Mine). The next day was printing, that was a little bit more tricky, but again got some good results for my first attempt.
All shots were taken using a Yashica-12 (Copal-SV 80mm 1:3.5) on Kodak TMax 400 film, developed in Kodak D-76 Developer. Scanned using an Epson V500 scanner @ 1200 DPI, edited in Adobe Photoshop CS3 for curves, and sharpening.
Tags: dark room, developing, film, Kodak, medium format, old school, tmax