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Grex Photography Item 43: Darkroom
Entered by mcpoz on Sun Dec 29 15:01:04 UTC 1996:

Well, I finally cleaned up my darkroom and am getting it ready to print.  I
plan to go out and shoot a couple of rolls of tri-x and then see if I can get
any good prints.  Hopefully, I can find a Saturday or Sunday Morning after
a fresh snow, then do some river shots.  

Anyone else do any home darkroom stuff?

8 responses total.

#1 of 8 by rickyb on Sun Dec 29 22:28:37 1996:

Sheesh!  Not for over 25 years!
(Still have trays and print dryer though, heh)

#2 of 8 by mcpoz on Mon Dec 30 00:50:33 1996:

Do you still have the enlarger?

#3 of 8 by denise on Mon Dec 30 02:12:10 1996:

Ah, to have a darkroom.... I'd love to do my own work/developing some day!!
I don't  have the space nor the funds right now, though.

#4 of 8 by mcpoz on Mon Dec 30 12:55:52 1996:

Well the expense would be well under $100 to get started printing
enlargements. I would think $50-75 would get you a used enlarger.  The
chemicals and paper would cost another $20 then you need 3 to 5 trays.  I
think I will have my B&W negatives comercially developed in the future and
just do the printing.  It costs about $5-6/roll for B&W to be developed and
printed.  

If you ever start, I have recommendations on how to make up just the amount
of developer, stop bath, & fixer you need for one session.

#5 of 8 by denise on Wed Jan 1 12:37:24 1997:

I'll be sure to get back with ya, Marc--some day I really DO want to have my
own darkroom!!

#6 of 8 by rcurl on Fri Jan 3 07:20:25 1997:

You can convert any bathroom without a window - and even most with - into
a darkroom. Ihave done it more than once by supporting a plywood sheet
over the bathtub, as a table (and installing light shields around the door
jamb). Which thought has suddenly reminded me that when I was in college,
I converted my dorm room to a darkroom! It became sort of a local meeting
room, where my friends and I sat around and gabbed in the soft orange glow
while prints developed in the tray...

#7 of 8 by mcpoz on Sat Jan 4 13:48:32 1997:

There is an Omega D2 enlarger for sale today in the Ann Arbor News Freebie
ads section.  It goes for $69.00 at 973-0020.

#8 of 8 by rickyb on Wed Jan 8 23:14:27 1997:

re#2... no.  I don't have the enlarger.  I kept only plastic trays, film tank,
some measuring flasks/bottles/etc and a copy stand (which i still use). 
Somewhere, i might even have the paper easel somewhere.  I use the safelights
in my x-ray darkroom.

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