Equipment recommendation to process at home

<p>Again, early experience of dev 35mm film. No dark room, no changing bag, bathroom & kitchen shared and not light tight.<br>

Wait for darkness, draw bedroom curtains, burrow under duvet with tank, reel, film in cassette and scissors in that order, having cut the leader to shape beforehand. Open cassette (Ilford FP4, push top off with thumbs). Gently feed film into plastic spiral, unrolling it from cassette hub about 6" at a time. When end reached, cut off close to hub with scissors, place spiral in tank, put lid on tank, emerge wriggling backwards from under duvet.<br>

Put tank on dressing table, ferret around in bed for empty cassette, hub and scissors, then go into kitchen and develop film, enduring facetious comments from flatmates, until they saw the results printed by local camera shop, at which point they went strangely quiet.<br>

No wonder I went digital.<br>

Tony</p>

Personally I like Paterson tanks. I have one

that will take 4 rolls of 35mm, 2 rolls of 120, or

the single MOD 54 holder for 4x5. 5x7 and

8x10 I develop in unicolor tubes. I taught my

wife how to develop 35mm the other day. She

mastered loading a Paterson reel the first

time.

<p>If you want to load your film in daylight then get hold of a Rondinax 35 for 35mm film or a Rondinax 60 for 120 film. These are daylight loading tanks and you don't need a darkroom or even a changing bag to process film. They are not made anymore but come up on Ebay regularly. Youtube has a good video.<br>

I use these for all my back and white, I've even done C41 colour in them and they work very well.</p>