Honestly, it was a bit of a faff and I’m not entirely convinced that it’s worth the effort. If all you want is pictures on your computer, there are much easier ways of doing it (the shot above was taken with my phone and transferred to my sharerd folder in seconds).

But – there are other reasons to shoot film that I’m exploring. I snaffled a developer tank from my partner’s dad (thanks Bob) and used Cinestill df96 to make the process as simple as possible. It turns out that getting distilled water was the hardest part of the prep.

Things went… ok. The dev came as a powder which took a long time to dissolve. I think I did something wrong with the dev tank (or it’s broken) because it was a bit leaky. Also, loading the film resulted in a broken sprocket hole which meant I had to use two reels in the tank. Despite all the setbacks, there was a small feeling of triumph when I opened up the tank and saw that there were actually pictures there. Whether they’re properly developed or not is a matter for another time. For the moment, I’m calling this a victory. I’ll have a go at scanning the pics, possibly with one of those cameraphone apps which makes this all seem utterly redundant. As I said before, the aim of this isn’t to get pictures on my computer, it’s to have developed films as a physical object irl.