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Photographic negative

A person in glasses examines a strip of film in a darkroom. Overlaid text reads "What's the point of film photography?" with "film photography?" highlighted in blue.

Diagram showing the negative-positive photographic process: a scene is captured on film in a camera, developed into a negative, projected onto paper with an enlarger, and developed again to produce a positive print.

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A person in glasses examines a strip of film in a darkroom. Overlaid text reads "What's the point of film photography?" with "film photography?" highlighted in blue.

How (And Why) To Develop Photos in a Darkroom

Don't let film photography become a lost art.

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Photographic negative

Photographic negative

Positive images (left) with their negative counterparts, in color and black and white.

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Diagram showing the negative-positive photographic process: a scene is captured on film in a camera, developed into a negative, projected onto paper with an enlarger, and developed again to produce a positive print.

sequence of negative–positive process

Figure 1: Sequence of negative–positive process, from the photographing of the original...

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