Doing your own developing is actually a very enjoyable hobby, and you can get better definition in enlargement than you can with digital (which is why ordinary photography is still in professional use more or less unabated). You create your photos in two stages, first developing the film, then making prints (which also need to be developed). Black and white is tremendously simple, colour not so simple but certainly not prohibitively difficult. To do B&W developing you need a film tank (a few �s) to load your film into, developer and fixer (the two chemical parts to the process) plus a good timer - this will give you a negative film. To print you need an enlarger (probably available second hand for less than �10 - mind that you get the "carriers" (frames) including glass with it, plus a good lens on it), paper, a framing board (sliding rulerlike things on it to mark the edges of what you want to expose - not essential but ultimately you will want this), paper, three print trays of plastic construction (for soaking the prints in and rinsing - metal is generally not OK because of risk of chemical reaction) and developer plus fixer - and a red bulb for low light to work in. Almost all the instructions you need for the process come with the chemicals (Kodak, Ilford, or whatever). Colour has several chemicals, all of which need to be carefully temperature controlled but the process is essentially of the same principle. To make slides or cine film you need even more chemicals and careful temperature contrul, but again not hugely difficult. All three can be done in a small dedicated space, such as an attic cupboard. You must have a means of handling film in total darkness.