The process of setting up the Film Camera and loading the film-
On a film camera, you can’t alter the ISO setting as this is already within the film used within the camera. The ISO I used was 400 as the weather wasn’t very good as it was raining and the sunlight outside was minimum. To load the film, you would use the advanced lever to turn and open the actual camera and then slot the film inside. You would then wind the film and thread it into the right hand side. You would then wind the film on by using the film advanced lever and close the opening of the camera.
The process of the Darkroom-
- In complete darkness, using the dark bag open the exposed film canister and remove one end and use the can opener if necessary.
- Trim the end of the film for loading and load the film onto the reel. Try and avoid touching the actual photographs and try and touch only the film edges.
- Slide the loaded reel onto inner tube
- Slide the second reel (empty or loaded) to hold in place
- Place the reels and funnel in developer tank- now that it’s light safe and the lid and remove from the dark bag.
- Then using 6ml of Rodenol, I put it in a container of water ready to put into the developer tank. This is left in there for roughly 20mins.
- After then withdrawing the developer tank of the Rodenol it was then time to stop, fix and clean the negative separately in the developing tank.
- After then washing the negatives inside of water, it can then be exposed to the light outside of the container.
Putting the negatives onto a contact sheet-
- Arrange the negatives on a photographic piece of paper after finding out the correct time from doing the testing strip. (This being 18 seconds under the enlarger).
- Turn on the timer for 18 seconds and then develop the entire contact sheet using the develop, stop, fix and clean trays in the darkroom.
Unit-21 FILM BASED PHOTOGRAPHY 