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As much as I would love to develop my own film my parents refuse to let me.

Our daughter was forbidden from doing lots of things, but developing film wasn't one of them. Out of curiosity, what are their reasons?
 
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Our daughter was forbidden from doing lots of things, but developing film wasn't one of them. Out of curiosity, what are their reasons?

Well reason one is beacuse of the chemicals. Two is beacuse I tend to leave my stuff out and in their way....:whistling:....
 

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I do B&W processing as well as custom printing here in Portland Oregon. I would be happy to work through the mail with you.
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Well reason one is beacuse of the chemicals. Two is beacuse I tend to leave my stuff out and in their way....:whistling:....

Well the second one is easy to fix, the first just takes some educating. I have a BW developing tank and bag if you want it for free...that is....when you think you can develop at home.
 

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Well reason one is beacuse of the chemicals. Two is beacuse I tend to leave my stuff out and in their way....:whistling:....

About what I figured. Pretty good reasons, though. They sound like my wife.

Maybe this would be a good reason to make some kind of deal with them about cleaning up your act - with you first proving you can do it for a few months before they let you get any chemicals, and then only with the stipulation that they go away the first time you leave any kind of mess behind you. Besides, you'll get better results if you're tidy and clean.
 

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Both my teenage daughters process film and print, it's the only time they are tidy, I hate going into their rooms for fear something might jump out and attack me from the mess.
 

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Both my teenage daughters process film and print, it's the only time they are tidy, I hate going into their rooms for fear something might jump out and attack me from the mess.

It would be especially scary if it was a teenage boy :whistling:
 

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NikonGarret,

You might want to try Ilford XP2 Super or Kodak BW400cn; both are ISO 400/27° black and white negative films that use colour film technology. You'll take them to any service that provides a regular (C-41) colour film processing service and you'll get your images printed onto colour photo paper, or scanned if you prefer that. They're an easy way into black and white photography if you cannot process your own films and you find that sending out 'conventional' (non-C-41 films i.e. Tri-X, Neopan, etc.) black and white films for processing is excessively expensive.

Good luck,
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Both my teenage daughters process film and print, it's the only time they are tidy, I hate going into their rooms for fear something might jump out and attack me from the mess.

Probably a lomo camera.
 
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