Time to start developing myself

[480sparky]

Drop the $100 and buy the tank, reels etc to soup it yourself, and another $200 for a scanner.

 

[SoulfulRecover]

wish a scanner was only 200. Id have to spend about 800 for one that can handle 4x5 film.

 

[SoulfulRecover]

So I finally got my scans back. After another week. JPEGs instead of TIFF files

 

[Gary A.]

Man ... you can't get a break. I think you know where not to send your film.

 

[OldManJim]

I'd suggest you start with Ilford film HP5+ gets very good results and is pretty forgiving of push/pull processing. I'd stick with Ilfosol developer as well since Ilford has excellent documentation. Once you get consistent results, you can branch out to other films and developers. check out Digitaltruth.com for info on times and temperatures. I've found their temperature conversions to be very accurate.

 

[Michael Mc]

Been using D76 for over thirty years and I've never seen a reason to change. Although I might try some HC-110 one of these days -- or Rodinol.