Colour film developed by 15 year old student!

[Andrew O'Neill]

A 15 year old student in my photo class, taught himself how to process
colour negative film. He sourced the kit himself, and commenced in my school darkroom. Turned out really well!

 

[Tom Kershaw]

Very impressive. Are you going to tackle RA-4 prints?

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Very impressive. Are you going to tackle RA-4 prints?

He is looking into it. We do have a couple of colour heads. He'll have to get the paper and chems.

 

[MattKing]

I like the fact that Andrew's student is keen about colour film, when the student is younger than some of the film that some of us have in our freezers!
Andrew, please be sure to pass on the fact that I (and others here as well) really were excited about colour film when we were 15, and are still excited about it almost 50 years later!

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

I like the fact that Andrew's student is keen about colour film, when the student is younger than some of the film that some of us have in our freezers!
Andrew, please be sure to pass on the fact that I (and others here as well) really were excited about colour film when we were 15, and are still excited about it almost 50 years later!

Will do!

 

[Agulliver]

Fantastic stuff. Well done that kid.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Fantastic stuff. Well done that kid.

Right?!! I was pretty darned impressed. He's the same kid that kept pestering me about caffenol so much so,that I taught the class how to mix it up and develop a roll. They thought is was so cool! Next semester we'll develop our prints in it. When you get a kid like that, it makes it so worth it!

 

[Griffin Miller]

That's awesome! I developed my first color roll a few years ago when I was 16. I'm 18 now and finally getting the chance to get into RA-4 printing this winter. I'm always in awe at the sheer amount of knowledge there is to take in regarding analog photography. Hopefully, your student will always be eager to learn about these types of things!

 

[TheGreatGasMaskMan]

My question- should you introduce him to e6 and ecnII?

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

My question- should you introduce him to e6 and ecnII?

Knowing this kid, he probably already knows about them!

 

[Agulliver]

Right?!! I was pretty darned impressed. He's the same kid that kept pestering me about caffenol so much so,that I taught the class how to mix it up and develop a roll. They thought is was so cool! Next semester we'll develop our prints in it. When you get a kid like that, it makes it so worth it!

It does! I work with kids in a school in the science department (I am senior science tech, responsible for all the chemicals, radioactive sources etc). I don't think they know I am into photography as it's not something I can easily do on site due to privacy rules....itself a shame as 20 years ago I used to shoot film and even super 8 movies at work and the kids were quite amazed. But...progress....

But when I give a demonstration of something and the kids specifically say "Oh, wow, I understand that now" or "That's amazing I want to do that for a living" it makes it all worthwhile.

I was blowing things up with thermite last week....

 

[Tyler Belt]

Did he use standard developing times

 

[Tel]

Right?!! I was pretty darned impressed. He's the same kid that kept pestering me about caffenol so much so,that I taught the class how to mix it up and develop a roll. They thought is was so cool! Next semester we'll develop our prints in it. When you get a kid like that, it makes it so worth it!

There's no jaw-dropper like a caffenol demo.

 

[Bronson Dugnutt]

Funny that, I developed 15 year old color film yesterday.

 

[TheGreatGasMaskMan]

Funny that, I developed 15 year old color film yesterday.

That's what I thought this was going to be about- I was ready to drop some 1978 expired Kodacolor II frames.

 

[Donald Qualls]

I've said for years, the only thing harder about C-41 relative to common black and white film processing is the temperature control. I've compensated time for temperature in B&W for years, but you can't get good results doing that in C-41 -- get a few degrees off, and even with extra time for lower temp, you'll get crossover that gets worse the further you are from 100F/38C. When I learned to do C-41 (15 years ago, near enough) sous vide units didn't yet exist, at least not for prices comparable with mail-off processing of a couple rolls of film as they do now. A $30 sous vide, a deep dishpan, and the same equipment you'd use for B&W: Bob's your uncle.

 

[wiltw]

A 15 year old student in my photo class, taught himself how to process
colour negative film. He sourced the kit himself, and commenced in my school darkroom. Turned out really well!

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KUDOS to the student! When I was about 14, I developed my first roll of reversal film in E-4 chemistry, but I had the guidance and the darkroom of an industrial photographer in his home lab...I am quite impressed with this student's accomplishment. Well done!

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

That's what I thought this was going to be about- I was ready to drop some 1978 expired Kodacolor II frames.

I agree the title is not very clear. Is there a way I can edit it?

 

[MattKing]

I agree the title is not very clear. Is there a way I can edit it?

Report your own post to the moderators, and ask for the edit. I would suggest: "Colour film developed by 15 year old student".

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Title updated.

Hey, I was doing that in high school, but that was a long time ago. I think I was using a system called “Parcolor” which was supposed to be more flexible in terms of temperature.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Thank you, David.

 

[NB23]

Yes!! I started at roughly the same age, 16.

But that’s nothing compared to Piano virtuosos at 8, or Chess Masters by the age of 10... I envy those!

A 15 year old student in my photo class, taught himself how to process
colour negative film. He sourced the kit himself, and commenced in my school darkroom. Turned out really well!

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[ic-racer]

I got a Cibachrome kit for Christmas when I was 14, but I couldn't figure out how to process the Kodachrome
Seriously, though, I remember it was somewhat of a pain to get the local shop to have them return the Kodachrome unmounted and uncut so I could print it.

 

[TheGreatGasMaskMan]

Also... Might as well admit to this but when I was 15, I didn't think anyone shot film anymore. Now I'm here, obsessed with high con bw film, expired cn film, and fresh slide film.

 

[gordrob]

My older sister gave me an Ansco developing kit with contact printers and a Ansco camera that took 127 film for Christmas when I was 14 years old and that sent me down this rabbit hole. Last week I dug out the contact printer kit and fixed it up and contact printed some 6x9 negs on Velox paper from the 1950s. I was surprised that the paper did not have a lot of fog and I actually got some good prints.