The developer reacts with the exposed silver crystals on the film and creates the image you’ll eventually see on the negative. If you can get hold of a few different developers, run a few experiments and see which ones give you the best results. This isn’t essential though, as Ilford films will work perfectly well with another developer such as Kodak’s T-Max, and you’ll still get stunning results.
As a general rule, I try and match the film and developer brands, for example, I shoot a lot of Ilford film, and so I use the Ilfotec LC-29 developer. There are lots of different types of developer for B&W film out there, and they’re all easily available at a reasonable price. The process is also incredibly simple, so simple you can do it at home – and lots of people do! After the film has been exposed, you load it onto a spool and put it into a tank, then throw in your developer. One of the nice things about Silver Gelatin films for B&W work is that they’re doing what they were designed to do, and they do a very good job at it. This mix of Silver and Gelatin is then painted onto the film back, which in most cases is made out of a material resembling plastic, although it can be anything. The ‘Traditional’ Black and White films you see are referred to as Silver Gelatin, the reason for this is fairly simple They’re made of tiny crystals of silver salts suspended in Gelatin. So, you want to shoot some Black and White, but you’re not sure which type of film you should go for, ‘Traditional’ or C-41? Let’s have a look at the details of both, and see if we can make up our minds.
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