Tools and equipment

Black and white:

·         Dark room

·         Film tank (Lomo is the tank of choice for home processing).

·         Standard 8mm film reels and film leader (if to be projected, they can be stored on the camera film reel.)

·         Super 8mm film reels to store (and to project) film.

·         16mm Film leader (if projected) 100ft camera reels fit 16mm projector.

·         A film winder.

·         A thermometer (floating is good, x2 for colour).

·         A pipet (handy).

·         Jug

·         Measuring cylinder (…or be able to measure by the ml).

·         Funnel (preferably with ribs on outside to allow air to escape whilst pouring).

·         A sink bowl.

·         A Large bucket for holding the chemicals and rinse water, (filled with water warmed to 20° to maintain chemical temperature).

·         Lots of plastic bottles, pop bottles are fine (for chemicals, rinse water and used chemicals).

·         Black and white film developer.

·         Black and white film fixative

·         Stop bath (not essential).

·         Borax (essential for remjet removal, various recipes exist on the internet)

·         Wetting agent (mild detergent to aid cleaning on final rinse and brake surface tension of water to aid drying streak free.

·         Coffee filters, to filter remjet (anti-halation film backing) from used chemicals to reuse them.

·         A film drying rack

·         …And of course, a film.

Colour:

·         Another accurate thermometer is handy (x2 total)

·         More bottles (more processes)

·         Bowl which fits film tank (again for a water bath)

·         Colour chemicals (process dependant)

·         And more Film.