1) Processing sinks with running water
Tanks for roll-film processing Timers
Thermometers for processing tanks
Film clips or a drying cabinet
Graduates
Negative envelopes or sleeves
Sponges
Scissors
2) developer, stop bath, and fixer.
3) First you will need to rotate the aperture ring and switch on the enlarger light. Focus the light. Turn off the light and put print paper on the baseboard shiney side facing up. And then put the negatives emulsion-side-up on top of the print paper. Set the enlarger timer. Put photo in developer for 1 min. Place in stop bath tray for 15 seconds. Put it in the fixer for 1 to 2 minutes. Let it dry. Put negative inside of the frame in the center of the negative carrier. Make sure the emulsion side of film faces up. Close the enlarger head using a lever to the right. Focus the image on the easel using the white side of a piece of exposed print paper. Turn off the light and put strip of print paper on the easel. Make sure they are held in place.Put a piece of cardboard over the strip, leaving a small part exposed. Set the timer for 2 to 5 seconds and switch it on. After each exposure, move the cardboard to reveal more of the strip till its completely exposed. Develop the strip. Once the strip has been in the fixer for 2 minutes you can take it into the light. Take the strip into the light and decide which exposed part looks best. Use this for deciding how long to expose the print paper. This determines whether to use filters, also which aperture setting to use.For the print you do the same thing, except put photo paper on the easel (make sure it's focused and centered) . Select a filter (there are five grades), 1 being low-contrast and 5 being high-contrast. Place filter in filter holder and close securely.
Set the aperture and timer using the strip as a guide. Switch on timer. After exposing the paper, place it in the developer tray and then process it.
Emulsion- a composition sensitive to some or all of the actinic rays of light, consisting of one or more of the silver halides suspended in gelatin, applied in a thin layer to one surface of a film or the like.
Aperture- an opening, you can adjust this opening on most cameras
Masking Easel- A frame, often with adjustable masks, used to hold photographic paper flat and control borders when printing enlargements.
Exposure- The total amount of light received by a photosensitive surface or an area of such a surface, expressed as the product of the degree of illumination and the period of illumination
Safe Light- A darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
Dodging- To shade part of picture from exposure for a period, while exposing the remainder of the print in order to lighten or eliminate the area.
Burning- To expose one part of an image to more light by masking the other parts in order to darken and give greater detail to the unmasked area.
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