Processing Black and White photos

• A metal or plastic film tank
• Three dark plastic containers to hold chemistry
• Graduates (used to measure chemicals)
• A darkroom timer
• A can opener
• A room that is totally light proof (not even the slightest sliver of light should be visible).
• Developer (see other sidebar)
• Glacial Acetic Acid (optional, for Stop Bath)
• Fixer (Kodak Rapid Fixer with Hardener is highly recommended)
• Hypo Eliminator

 The chemicals that are gonna be used in the dark room are like water, small amounts of glacial Acetic acid with water, stop bath, Hypo Eliminator (also called Hypo clearing agent).



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• Contact sheet- A contact sheet is an 81/2 x 11 sheet of photo paper with 6 to 8 color images, generally referred to as proofs
• Agitation- Serves to remove the very thin layer of solution that is working on the emulsion of the film or paper.
• Enlarger-  is a specialized transparency projector used to produce photographic prints from film or glass negatives using the gelatin-silver process, or transparencies.
• developer-a chemical, often a mixture of metol and hydroquinone, which converts the latent silver halide image in the exposed photograph material into reduced, opaque, black silver metal.
• Stop bath- is a chemical bath usually used in processing traditional black-and-white photographic films, plates, and paper used after the material has finished developing.
• Fixer-a chemical that removes unexposed silver salts from photographic media and renders them insensitive to light.