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I found an old wooden box in a junk shop, cut up a can of seltzer for the pinhole plate, took apart an empty film cartridge from a pack of Fujifilm for a film holder, and got some craft felt for light seals. Glued magnets around the edge of the hole I cut in the bottom of the box so I could use a magnet for the shutter.
Here's what it looks like:
But wait! There's more!
I took a couple of test pictures with Harman Direct Positive paper and developed them in the bathroom.
Now, this may not seem like a big deal since most of you have been doing darkroom work for years. This, however, is a first for me. Ever. I've never developed anything by myself. I've wanted to for a long time but for various reasons, never got started.
Until yesterday.
The pictures aren't that great and it's clear that I need to make some adjustments to my camera, my exposures, and possibly my developing (any thoughts or advice would be welcome, of course!), but I am beyond excited that I've finally gotten myself started. I just couldn't believe how wonderful it was to watch that image slowly appear on the paper. I was thrilled that I at least made actual images instead of a totally blank sheet of paper. In a lot of ways, I am more proud of these crappy first attempts than I am of my best shots taken with a 'proper' camera, and certainly of anything at all I've ever taken with a digital.
So here are my first two EVER self-developed pictures. The first one was exposed for one minute and developed in Caffenol for 4 minutes. The second one was exposed for 1 minute 40 seconds and developed in Caffenol for 4 minutes. (The blue marks in the corner and on the left side were from the scanning. The paper was still a tiny bit curled so some of the light reflected off the glossy surface. Will rescan them soon but I was too impatient to blab about them, so I'm posting them as is.)
Here's what it looks like:
But wait! There's more!
I took a couple of test pictures with Harman Direct Positive paper and developed them in the bathroom.
Now, this may not seem like a big deal since most of you have been doing darkroom work for years. This, however, is a first for me. Ever. I've never developed anything by myself. I've wanted to for a long time but for various reasons, never got started.
Until yesterday.
The pictures aren't that great and it's clear that I need to make some adjustments to my camera, my exposures, and possibly my developing (any thoughts or advice would be welcome, of course!), but I am beyond excited that I've finally gotten myself started. I just couldn't believe how wonderful it was to watch that image slowly appear on the paper. I was thrilled that I at least made actual images instead of a totally blank sheet of paper. In a lot of ways, I am more proud of these crappy first attempts than I am of my best shots taken with a 'proper' camera, and certainly of anything at all I've ever taken with a digital.
So here are my first two EVER self-developed pictures. The first one was exposed for one minute and developed in Caffenol for 4 minutes. The second one was exposed for 1 minute 40 seconds and developed in Caffenol for 4 minutes. (The blue marks in the corner and on the left side were from the scanning. The paper was still a tiny bit curled so some of the light reflected off the glossy surface. Will rescan them soon but I was too impatient to blab about them, so I'm posting them as is.)