Hi everyone, my name is Matt Parry & i'm the Marketing Manager at ILFORD Photo. Now if you're like
me and you're self isolating or social distancing, perhaps you are at home with
your children who are out of school at the moment and you're looking for ways to
keep them educated and engaged. One of the things I'm going to try and maybe it's
an idea for you guys to do too. I'm going to give them a camera. I don't trust them with mine so I'm going
to give them what are these HARMAN reusable ones and a roll of Kentmere.
The idea is I'm going to get him to go out and shoot , t maybe in the garden maybe
inside the house as well and then he's gonna process it himself
so I'm going to teach him to mix the chemicals using ILFORD Simplicity
sachets and then the process it himself using a LAB-Box or using the ILFORD
and Patterson starter kit. Hopefully it all goes to plan, keep following the
IG stories to see how we get on,
This is my Son, we've just come down to the river just to the back of the house &
we're just gonna finish off this roll here. I brought my camera as well. The
light isn't particularly great but it's a good opportunity just to finish it off
and then we can go home, process the film and we'll see how they turn out.
Right, yesterday he shot his roll of film his roll of Kentmere. We have a LAB Box, we
have some Paterson graduated cylinders and we have ILFORD Simplicity
so he's going to make up the chem's now, load up the lab box and start processing
his first film.
So just give it a quick stir, rinse it off in the water now put
it in the stop bath which is the yellow one, give the yellow one a stir.
The film is in the tank the chem's are ready so what we're going to do now is
actually start the developing so if you're looking for development times these can
be found in the film processing chart on our website and for Kentmere 400 in
ILFORD Simplicity it's six minutes and 30 seconds so if you're unsure what to look
for look for ILFOSOL 3. With the LAB box and Simplicity a LAB box will
take 500mls or just under 500 mil versus the Paterson tanks which take six hundred
mil so it's still best to dilute all your simplicity but just don't pour the
full amount in. You'll know when the tank is full.
In terms of agitating you will need to agitate this more than you would
when you do a Paterson tank so you agitate it for first 45 seconds
then you need to agitate it for 10 seconds every 30 seconds.
Right that's enough, right that has been washed
we've put wetting agent in so we're gonna empty that out and then we're
gonna take the film out and see how he's done.
We have a strip of dried negatives
so he's gonna check them out now using a light table and a loupe and then what
we're gonna do just to finish off the process is we're gonna scan them using a
digital camera a copy stand I've got this which is a negative supply 35 mil
film carrier so we're going to use that and the copy stand just to make some
scans and we'll invert them and then you can see the images on the screen and of
course you'll keep the negatives so at some point in the future once
self-isolation has finished we'll get them into a dark room and hopefully
printing them
you