

I’m not sure if they’re thick, but I’ve done a couple flavours of Ilford, and a LOT of Flic Film UltraPan 400 as I bought a HUGE bulk reel and loader to make my own rolls. Neither seemed abnormally difficult? Just the roughly expected amount of difficult at first, as I had never done any of this before! Once I got the hang of it though it was pretty smooth sailing.





iirc - I learned the whole thing from Analog Resurgence’ video on the subject - he recommended something for practice… I can’t remember if it was, the ends of rolls, or, like, already developed strips (seems kinda dangerous so probably not) … or … maybe it was in the bulk loader video he had the suggestion and I adapted it to practice the development rolling process too or something …
I feel like I can remember sitting on the couch with my hands under a blanket or something (I’m sure it wasn’t real film so no concerns about spoiling) and just doing it over and over without being able to see …
I really wish I could remember, but it was a couple years ago now. I guess the long and the short of it though was that practice did indeed make, well, ‘better’, lol. Honestly not sure how much luck I’d have if I tried today as it has been so long, but at the time I was banging out at least 1-2 rolls per week for a good 3-5 months and got pretty ok at it.
Helped of course doing the bulk rolls, because I could literally just spool up a 12 shot roll or whatever, go for a five minute walk and shoot the whole thing with no remorse of waste (as I may have with 24 or 36 shots) and then do my thing!