There
is no substitute for..................
In the
initial stages of your quest to produce a good set of negatives with your first
film, you are starved of knowledge and information and read everything you can
lay your hands on. This is counter productive and becomes confusing as
different people have their own method of arriving at the same result. Pick one
practitioner with a simple method and stick with them, forsaking all others until
you know what results will be obtained when you pull the film from the
developing real.
The more
straight forward the method the less things need to be checked when something
go's wrong. What people do not tell you is that film processing is very
forgiving and if you don't quite get the time right, the temperature is not
spot on or you forget to invert the tank the right amount of times it will not
make a vast difference to the final outcome. Possibly they will be slightly
thiner or denser than normal but what is normal in your case? It is not until
you have processed a number of films that you will truly know. Once you know
what to exepect you can then personalise the method to get the negatives that
suit your own taste.
