Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]what are you using for an exhaust system? Rob Mueller Studies in Black and White www.studiesinblackandwhite.com rob@studiesinblackandwhite.com - -----Original Message----- From: AlastairF@bhs.grampianshealth.org.au [mailto:AlastairF@bhs.grampianshealth.org.au] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 2:13 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Darkroom depression O me miserum, All this talk of the Darkroom being dead, just as my long awaited, dreamed of and planned studio/darkroom becomes a reality. I first started photography in the home darkroom of a professional photographer whose mother could not bear to see the room unused. Richard and I toiled away for hours, perfecting a very imperfect system of development, learned mainly from trial and error (like the day I washed our most precious film in hot water and watched the emulstion slide down the sink). When that closed/became a junk room again, I managed to convince my mother to share her laundry, and made quite a neat darkroom fold out cupboard arrangement. When I left the nest, (and mother changed the locks) I was confined mainly to crawling under the sheets and blankets to load film -- very uncomfortable in summer. On graduation, I managed to build a darkroom into the bathroom. It was a nice set up, but the steam from the shower was always a problem. Next house and a dedicated small darkroom -- dreams coming true, but the work load of post graduate study made sure it was never used, and I moved out the day I stopped study. Now firmly planted, I have had 7 years of digital darkroom misery, and finally the mighty plans are about to come to fruition. ATL Autolab 3, the mother of all water temperature control panels, a wet area huge sink, an exhaust system to suck the rooms air out and over 15 times per hour, and a beautiful enlarger bench, AND YOU ARE TELLING ME ITS ALL DEAD. O me miserum Cheers Alastair