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If you assume the cost of developing a film at a lab is around £7/roll (inc postage) you recoup the costs of developing your own after around 20 rolls of film. (Assuming £100 for all thenon consumables then chemistry on top of that)
Non consumables:
- Dark bag to get the film out (can use cupboard or under bed sheets)
- Film can opener to get the film out of the can (I use a bottle opener)
- Scissors to cut the fiilm
- Developing tank & spiral
- Thermometer
- Neg drying clips (I use clothes pegs and a coat hanger hung off the kitchen door with one of those plastic clothes drying things that attached to a door)
- Squeegee (can do without this)
- 3 Measuring jugs with up to 1l graduations
- 1 measuring jug for very small amounts of liquid (up to 25ml - I use a medecine bottle lid)
- Timer (I use the built in timer on the Massive Dev Chart App)
Consumables
- Developer (HC-110 and Rodinal are super super cheap per roll)
- Stop bath (some people use water or water+vinegar mix)
- Fixer
I have a small cupboard in the kitchen where I have a 1l bottle of mixed up stop bath, a 1l bottle of mixed up fixer, my undiluted developer, fixer and stop, my 2 developing tanks, and a sandwich box with thermometer, squeegee, clothes pegs and one of those medicine bottle lids that's got graduations up to 25ml. I'm quite lucky. My wife has a crap ton of stuff in the kitchen so me asking for half the smallest cupboard was a no brainer
I keep the dark bag and spirals in the office because they dry out quicker. Wet spirals are no joke!
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