What does "develop only" mean when developing film?

Question

I'm someone who has been spoiled by digital cameras and have only recently decided to take up film photography. Care to explain the developing process to me? I am also planning to develop 120 and 110 films... how does that work? Thanks!

Answer 1

Develop only is where the lab processes the film to make the negative, but does not print the pictures themselves.



There are 2 processes: first is the developing. This must be done in absolute darkness, which is why people often do not want to do this at home. You need a darkroom. The film is placed in chemicals for certain timings, with "fixes" the image onto the film itself.



You then have to print it - by shining a light through it onto photosensitive paper. This does not require quite the same amount of darkness, although it is still pretty dark - often darker than you can easily make at home.

Answer 2

"Process" just means to develop the film. The backing paper is removed in a darkroom or in a lightproof changing bag and the film is wound onto a reel and placed in a lightproof developing tank. Developing solution is poured into the tank, which is kept in motion for the appropriate time (depending on which developer, the temperature and the film type) after which it is poured off, the film is rinsed (and a "stop bath" used to inhibit further development. The processed film is removed, washed in clean water, squeegeed and hung to dry in a dust free area (a drying cupboard. The result is a strip of negatives, which may be returned to you as is or separated into individual negatives. What can you do with them? You can print them as contact prints (same size as the negatives) or enlarge them by projecting them onto light sensitive paper and then developing them in much the same way as the film was processed. If you don't have a darkroom or the necessary skills, you will have to send the negatives you want printed back to the lab. As an alternative, you can scan the negatives into a computer, reverse the image, and treat it like any other digital file - but while that gives you back some control over the image, you are going to be very hard pressed to match the quality you can get from a "real" print.

Answer 3

What Does Develop Mean

Answer 4

If it is black and white film you are planing to develop there are a lot of verity in time and chemical dilutions. so first i would pick a developer like d-76 (most common) then go to the film makers website and look up the developing chart for your film. the chart will tell you the time, dilution and temperature for the developing stage. lode your film in to your developing tank in the dark most plastic film reels can be adjusted to the size of the film 120, 35 option. to start you need to do a water rinse aka fill the tank up with water then dump out. then the developer for however long the film manufacture says(dont forget to agitate), then dump then rinse with water. next is stop bath dilution from stock is 1-9, have the stop in the tank for a minute and dump ( also stop is reusable till it turns purple) then fix for 4 minutes the dilution is 1-8 for fix (fix is reusable as well). then permawash for 2 minutes the dilution is 1-9. then water for at least 5 minutes the more you rinse the more clear the film base will be. there is a lot more to developing but that is the basics of it. i'm sure there is more online if you did a search or went to kodak webpage

Answer 5

First of all, Processing DOES NOT have to be done in a darkroom. I did journalism work and processed my own film in a canister before taking it into the press room for copy.



That said, I will move on.



Develop only simply means not to print. Unlike Slide, or color reversal film, regular color (not chrome) film goes through two phases of processing, the developing phase and print phase.



A lot of newsrooms do not have need for prints since the print portion is the scanned negative sent to copy for editorial additions and captions before the newspaper goes into production. This is accomplished using Quark or other Mac software.

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