When on the road I develop my colour films in The Bus. Developement means immersing the film in 'C41'-chemistry for a certain time at a certain temperature. The result is the Negative (an inverse image), from which positive prints can be made.

For the C41 developement I put the films into a drum. It is light proof, I can fill it with chemistry and I can rotate it.

The chemistry should be at exactly 38°C/100 °F. Normal film processors use hot water to warm up the chemistry. On a warm day, I can use the sun for that.

I start with filling the drum with the Developer and rotating it by hand for 3.15 min. The second chemistry is the Bleach/Fix, which takes another few minutes (time and temperatur is only crucial for the Developer). Then the films go into water for some time.

Next they go up for drying. On a hot day this takes only a few minutes.

^{Drying films like on the picture guarantees a bit of the oh-so-nice dust :)}

Now they are ready for printing.

^{Chemistry I use: Tetenal Colortec. The link goes to Nordfoto in Europe.
In the US you can order it as Press Kit via B&H in New York.}

btw.: you can also use this process at room temperature. Developement time goes up to appr. 17 min., and contrasts will be a bit lower.

Try it out!

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