All the items are also available individually. If you are completely new to developing at home, you can get everything required in our Colour Film Processing Bundle. Some developing thermometers don’t, so this is well worth checking before you start. The main difference is that you will need a thermometer that goes up past 30 degrees Celcius. If you are already processing your own black-and-white film you will have most items you need. To develop your film you will also need some equipment. In the kit, you get all the chemicals you need to process your own colour negative film, which makes things nice and simple. It has been specially designed for easy development of C41 negative film, and in all the years we have been using and selling it, it has never let us down. Our go-to recommendation is the Tetenal Colortec C-41 Developing Kit. When it comes to colour film processing you buy all the chemistry you need together in a single kit. For this review, we are going to focus on C41 developing as most colour films available today are negative, and they are by far the most popular option of the two. Reversal film, otherwise known as slide film, needs E6 chemistry. Colour negative film is easily the most common and needs C41 chemistry.

Which process you need depends on the film you are developing. You can do both at home, as long as you have the correct chemistry. Hopefully, this review might convince you to give it a try.Īs you might know, colour film has two common development processes. Once we explain how simple it is, our customers are often keen to try it themselves. Developing your own colour film at home is not only completely possible, it is fun and arguably more straightforward than black-and-white. Pretty much every person we meet has been told somewhere that developing black-and-white film at home is reasonable, but that developing colour film is just too tricky. You also get the satisfaction of working with your film from start to finish, which means you learn a lot more, and you know how it’s handled. It’s a sensible decision – it’s surprisingly simple and can save you huge amounts of money. We meet an increasing amount of people who have decided to start doing it themselves. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to develop your own colour film.

Our reviews are based on our combined years of experience doing it ourselves and helping our customers. We all shoot film and process it ourselves so have fairly extensive knowledge of the products we sell. You can come and visit our shop in Brixton, to browse, buy things or just have a chat.

The four of us: Alice, Frank, Sam and Sol, set up Parallax in 2016 with the intention to support the use of film, and love of photography, into the future. We sell film, paper, chemistry, and everything else you need if you are shooting film.

Tetenal c 41 kit