[LargeFormat] darkroom horrors (was philosophy)

[Les Newcomer]

Actually my first dark room wasnt' that bad to create.  It was in a 50s
tract house, that had 7 foot ceiling in the basement, a decent location for
a drain. I got cabinets from a neighbor who was redoing their kitchen  so
all I had to do was put in a stud wall and some outlets.

Infact I used the darkroom for three sessions before the drywall was in.
Just did it at night to keep the light leaks to a minimum.

And yes you could spend 'weeks and a fortune'  I guess I have, but A) I am
obsessive, particulalry about over engineering, adding bells and whistles.
and B) at least with the first darkroom, it was an income producer, so I had
an excuse to go a bit overboard.

The second mess I just got myself into was to process 5x7 and 8x10 film.

I don't have a sink and just got water into the darkroom since I moved 10
years ago.

Yes you can do it easier, simpler.  But will admit, unless you like the
smell and the dark, photoshop is the future, of course you could spend weeks
and two fortunes with computer equipment too.

Les

> From: "philip.lambert" <philip.lambert@ntlworld.com>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:07:46 -0000
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] darkroom horrors (was philosophy)
> 
> After reading about darkroom problems I think the old fools in the camera
> club( all about my age) are right to say I should try digital printing, get
> my negs back on a cdrom and buy an A3 printer.  I saw some technically
> excellent prints done this way. The pictures were all crap but beautifully
> manipulated on a computer, nothing like the original negs, shadows all
> turned the opposite way, offending details in the original covered by image
> cloned from a bit further down the road and so on.   I could spend weeks and
> a fortune learning how to do all this but (a) I am not an obsessive (b) it
> doesn't sound fun anyway (c) computers give me a pain somewhere. Is there a
> middle way?  Philip
> 
> 
> 
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