Hello there
I just developed two black and white film rolls. That was a painful experience, because of my bad choice of film:
👿 The Lucky SHD400 is too thin, curling on itself like crazy, slipping on the reel.
🫤 The Lomography earl grey 100 is a bit thicker, better catch on reel’s sides and locking ball.
I wish next rolls will be easier to feed on the reel, any advices ?
Until now nothing beats the Kikipan 320. But it’s not produced anymore.
Asking AI seems only to praise most expensive films, not sure if it is true or biased.
Also I tired asking on the mastodon and associated platform first with not much luck.
Hopefully lemmy is better suited for that kind of open question ?
iirc - I learned the whole thing from Analog Resurgence’ video on the subject - he recommended something for practice… I can’t remember if it was, the ends of rolls, or, like, already developed strips (seems kinda dangerous so probably not) … or … maybe it was in the bulk loader video he had the suggestion and I adapted it to practice the development rolling process too or something …
I feel like I can remember sitting on the couch with my hands under a blanket or something (I’m sure it wasn’t real film so no concerns about spoiling) and just doing it over and over without being able to see …
I really wish I could remember, but it was a couple years ago now. I guess the long and the short of it though was that practice did indeed make, well, ‘better’, lol. Honestly not sure how much luck I’d have if I tried today as it has been so long, but at the time I was banging out at least 1-2 rolls per week for a good 3-5 months and got pretty ok at it.
Helped of course doing the bulk rolls, because I could literally just spool up a 12 shot roll or whatever, go for a five minute walk and shoot the whole thing with no remorse of waste (as I may have with 24 or 36 shots) and then do my thing!