Title says it all. I watched a video from technology connections about the olympus pen ee once, then watched his series on photography, and then kinda put it on the back burner as something I could maybe eventually do.

Then I went to see a friend who collects vintage stuff and I caved and bought that olympus cam, refurbished. Straight from the 60s, the best tech available at the time lol

At first I only wanted the camera; it's perfectly functional but I figured, it's a good conversation starter and a nice piece of decoration... but people kept asking me "did you put film in it? Did you put film in it?"

So I caved and I bought film. And then of course there's no point having film if you're not going to develop it.

So I just bought the necessary equipment to at least develop my negatives. It's not much more expensive to develop positives but for now this is enough. I heard you shouldn't let exposed film collect dust too long and develop it, so at least I can preserve my negatives and do my positives whenever I want.

I have no idea what I'm doing, I learned everything about film development from technology connections. This thing is scary lol, like at first I put the roll wrong in my camera, which would have made it wind on the roller wrong. I had to rewind the film, take it out, and put it back correctly, thereby ruining my first two pictures I took. And you have no idea what the result is gonna be until you develop the film.

I also rewound a little bit too much and the film got stuck into the can, so I had to fish it out -- thankfully there's tons of videos on youtube that show you how to do this.

The upside at least is the chemicals do cost a bit to acquire, but you dilute them so much that they end up very cheap. The other upside is you can get most of the equipment on aliexpress for cheap, and with much more choice.