Who can manually develop a roll of 35mm film?

You might want to ask TitsMcghee, she is currently studying photography. ;)

I took photography in high school and we had to develop film by hand. So you could try a high school or a college.

Yeah maybe you could get some kid extra credit for it!

Yeah, I definitely know how to do that. I did it in high school and still do it in college. Look up local colleges that offer black and white photography classes, their kids will definitely have to do that, and you might be able to get someone to do it for you if you pay them a few bucks since it’ll take them a good half an hour or so to do. This is because they should really do it in its own one-roll tank to make sure no rust or other gunk gets on their film.

I can…and i’m sure as mentioned before any local college or high school around you probably has someone that can! :)

I second the high school student suggestion.

I’m a photo tech so I can tell you that your photos might not look very good if the unprocessed film that you have is very old, which seems to be the case based on your description.

However, unless you process it, you will never know what the pictures are of.

I would trust college students first. High school students do jack shit in dark rooms half the time.

One-hitter in the dark room, what what?

I can! I’ll be right over :)

Also, Asmonet is correct—definitely see if there is a college kid willing to do it. In some cities there are dark rooms you can rent by the hour that come with chemicals. You can always check one of them out and see if there is anyone who would do your film.

You need to know what kind of film it is, though—if it’s color film, and you process it with the standard B&W chemicals, you’ll ruin the chemicals and get nothing to show on the film. And vice versa.

Also, it’s fairly easy to get good results from manually processing B&W film; manually processing color is a tedious, finicky business, and it’s very sensitive to slight changes in temperature. You should be prepared to see nothing at all on the film.

I would be happy to develop it at school (I am doing an independent study in film photography), but we only have the chemicals for black and white film like @cwilbur mentioned.

Same here. I used to do that at uni all the time but I don’t even know where all my stuff is anymore.

My gf however is a professional photographer with her own studio and I’m sure if there’s anyone in the world who could do it, it’s her. There’s a catch though: she lives in Poland. So if you can’t find anyone close by, message me and I’ll give you her address.

@cwilbur It’s regular color film.

If you see “C-41 Process” anywhere on the film cartridge then it’s regular color film.

ok my gf said this:

1. If you use b/w chemicals you’ll just destroy the film (but we knew that already).
2. If any light has gone into the film it will also be destroyed.
3. You can change the spindle yourself. It is quite easy, but has to be done in total darkness. And I mean total, no candles, no cracks under the door, nothing.
4. While you’re at it, use an air-spray to clean the film. Anything else will damage it. Again in darkness.
5. Good luck.

@Vinifera7 it is C-41

@Jack79 Good point. I hadn’t thought about changing it to a new spindle myself and taking it in. Hmmm. I do have a dark “bag” thing from when I used to take 120 in a box camera

Yikes. I could develop that for you (I have tanks and reels and everything!) if t was black and white. Almost no one does their own color development. Like someone mentioned above, the color chemicals are dangerous, and the temperature is nearly impossible to maintain like that. You’ll definitely be hard pressed to find anyone who can (and will) do it. It’s also really expensive to buy the chemicals. Good luck though!