I have many undeveloped 35m film cartridges. Is there or will there be a way to develop them at home.Thank You

Answer 1

Yes you can develop them at home, but first check out what's involved.

Here's a tutorial on setting up a home darkroom that lets you develop and print negatives:

http://www.apogeephoto.com/sept2000/home_darkroom.shtml

By the time you set all this up, WalMart will start to look pretty good.

Answer 2

Good question, complicated answer.

If you are referring to color film/slide film I would strongly recommend you simply take them to your local photo finishing shop, and let them handle it. Color film developing requires critical attention to temperature of the chemicals and timing of development, and neither can be done consistently at home with the required accuracy. The temperature needs to be kept within +/- .2 degrees F to avoid disaster, very difficult to achieve without a well designed home darkroom with some prohibitively expensive equipment, and some real hands on experience developing film. Just loading the film onto the developing reel takes a bit of practice. B+H Photo Video sells prepaid mailers for less than $10, and I have used them with acceptable results.

There are home developing labs made by JOBO and others, but unless you will be doing a high volume they are cost prohibitive. B+W can be done a bit easier in home, but again, without practice and the required equipment, your still better off with a pro photo finisher.

Good Luck

PS: A good book on B+W capture, development and printing is "Black and White Photography", a basic manual by Henry Horenstein ISBN#0-316-37314-1

Answer 3

set up a dark room in your bathroom with all the chemicals to do it yourself.
i've developed photographs in my high school and it's a very fun and rewarding process, at least in black and white, but the process should be the same.

http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=45612

the chemicals smell god awful though

Answer 4

(1)bring a pack of film developer and some fixer from any Photo shop (if your film is black and white).
(2)Now read instruction on developer pack and make solution.mark it 'D'.
DO EVERY THING ABOVE IN VERY MILD LIGHT.
(3)Take a tray/wide bowl, half-fill it with warm water and put a hand-full of fixer in it and still till it dissolve. When the grains disappear cover it.Now mark it 'F'.
DO IN 100% DARK AREA ONLY (like in bathroom with lights off)
(4)bring film out of cartridge carefully (don't cause scratches over it). move it in developer 'D' till as mentioned on 'D' pack
(5)now do the same movement in fixer 'F' for some minutes
(6)wash in fresh water and hang it to dry
BUT ONLY EXPERTS CAN DO IT MANUALLY/SUCH WAY.

Answer 5

It depends on what films they are and what process they require. For instance, Kodachrome, no.