Developing Black and White Film at Home

Step 12 What to Do With the Developed Film

There are several routes that you can take at this point. You could say "hmm, that was fun" and throw the film away without ever looking back. Another option is to take the film to your local drug store or photography store and have enlargements made. Just go through the same process that you would to have reprints made.

If you are going to have prints made at a lab or drug store, it is best to leave your film in one long strip. It is easier on the film techs to run the film through the paper processor in one long strip, rather than five or size smaller strips. After you have your prints made, you may wish to cut the negatives into strips of five or six frames for easy storing. The film tech may even offer to do it for you after they have finished processing your film. Whatever you do, make sure that the strips have no fewer than four frames a piece. Otherwise, you run the risk of getting the film strip stuck inside the paper processing machine.

Store your negatives completely dry in a dust free environment. I like to separate the individual film strips with paper, but that is optional.

Comments

[DeSaint]

What I do is to scan the film with a Canon 8800F, that way I transfer it to the computer and voila! a digitalized photo

[christydeering]

You can also find negative sleeve pages at any friendly local photography supply store. If not there, go online and find some. You can get them in lots of different sizes, and it helps to be able to slide them in the sleeves, label the top, and store them in a binder.