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A trip to a bookstore or library is in order. Developing C-41 film to get negatives is relatively simple, but there's little reason to do it yourself if trustworthy minilabs are nearby. The film is processed in a lightproof tank, so you need darkness only for a few minutes, to load the tank. A 110 tank may be hard to find nowadays. So might a minilab that does 110. Making color prints by traditional means is very challenging. (Budget $1000 for equipment and months for learning how.) I recommend scanning the negatives and making the prints with a computer. Again, some ingenuity might be needed to handle 110 -- you might have to rig some kind of cardboard mask to make a 110 negative fit into a 35mm film holder. I do my own black-and-white darkroom work and find it very rewarding. Color enlarging, on the other hand, is in my opinion almost obsolete, replaced by the computer. The reason is that when you make a color print or enlargement, you're juggling 6 layers of photographic emulsion (3 primary colors in the negative and 3 in the print) and there is likely to be *no way* to get them *all* to do what you want. With black and white, you're only working with 2 layers, and the challenge of coordinating the print with the negative is rewarding and fruitful.
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