A spiral reel tankCan I process movie film at home?
Sure it is physically possible to develop (or process, which is the more correct term) motion picture film at home, the question is what sort of trouble are you willing to put up with. Many still photographers process their own black and white film, and make prints (some of them also do their own color slides and prints). However, it is important to realize that a 36 exposure roll of 35mm film is five feet long, and will snugly fit onto a spiral reel and inside a tank that you can hold in one hand. Some tanks are made that can hold 8 such rolls of film at a time. In a matter of an hour or two, a still photographer can have up to 288 negatives or slides available for printing or scanning. However, when you realize that same 35mm film is moving through a movie camera at 24 pictures per SECOND, which equals to about 90ft per minute, the amount of film to be processed increases drastically. Those same five feet of film a still photographer processes to get 36 pictures won’t even yield a si
