Friday, September 23, 2011

How to develop film from my Holga camera?

I mean where can i take the film to get the pictures developed? Thanks so much!|||If it is 35mm film, any 1-hour lab will do.





If you are shooting 120 film, it is a little more difficult to deal with, since there are fewer labs that can process it. Ask around at your local Walmart, Costco or other 1-hour labs. While they may not be able to process the on site, many of these labs will send the film out to be processed for you.





The next option is to find a local pro-lab. These are labs that specifically cater to professional photographers and will be able to process your film on site. As you might imagine, it can be a little pricey.





Another film processing option is to send out the film to be processed. Check out these processors, they both offer processing by mail:


http://www.dwaynesphoto.com/


http://www.swanphotolabs.com/swan08/inde鈥?/a>





Then the best of all option, process the film yourself. BW film processing and even color processing are not too difficult to learn and also not very expensive to get into.








For Holga tips, check out this website:


http://goholga.com/





Then there's my own website:


http://www.dianacamera.com/





I have lots of tips, tricks and photos taken with plastic cameras.





For how-to videos for Holgas and Diana cameras, check out my youtube channel:


http://www.youtube.com/user/kaituba|||Walgreens, CVS, Penn Camera (if you have one locally) or Chrome Photo.





If there is a local darkroom at a local college you could use, they could help you develop the film yourself with giving you specific instructions. Generally after rolling the film on the reels, the steps are:





1. prewash


2. develop


3. stop wash


4. fixer


5. wash


6. perma wash


7. final wash


8. photo-flo


9. dry





Developing procedures may vary! hope this helps!

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