Few locations remain to turn exposed film into pictures. So develop your own black-and-white film at home—it's pretty easy and extremely fun.

With a microcontroller, an OLED display, and a rotary encoder, different developing processes can be programmed in, the chemicals heated, developer agitated, and film processed.

Oakland photographer Beatrice Thornton remembers her initial sense of wonder at the alchemy of photography the first time she developed her own black-and-white film. It was the summer after her ...

We’re now somewhere over two decades since the mass adoption of digital photography made chemical film obsolete in a very short time, but the older technology remains in use by artists and en… ...

Film processing chemicals contain toxic metals like cadmium, chromium and silver compounds. These are supposed to be filtered out in waste-water treatment plants, but that doesn`t always happen ...

Thomas J Müller is working on a film developing concept with a daylight loading tank and an automated reel that precisely heats film and chemicals for easier at home development.

The dip-and-dunk system ensures that the film touches only the necessary chemicals, and avoids any physical machinery, during processing.