Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I still have my darkroom with my Omega D2 with the Aristo 4500 VC cold light perched on top of it and Nikkor lenses underneath it the one I use for 35mm being the 63mm 2.8! Underneath that lenes I usually have my Saunders master easel UA1124, the one with the knobs only it's small, 11x14. Kind of usual in that size. I also have been using for quite awhile a Saunders Master easel in 20x24 . Last year found I really could use one in 16x20! So it looks like I've got a complete set of those babies. I'd not go into my darkroom without one. All timed with a Beseler Audible repeating timer which set me back 80 bucks and was about the only one out there which would not blow my earlier cold lights. On the floor there is its footswitch another thing I hate to print without. I know that because I sometimes print in a rental color darkroom which does not have footswitches on their timers. And it's all kept in alignment with a kit from Zig-Align. I am a parallelist. Our sets of beliefs are too complex for the scale of this forum. We do not use pagan laser beams. I have an electric Acculab Darkroom Scale by the way. And a single balance Ohaus I got from a LUGger for bigger things which I never use. On the ceiling there is a Thomas low pressure sodium safelight which is the standard of the industry for good reason. My darkroom is 8 by 18 feet. I have a 4 foot by 2 foot light table in there which I'd hate to be without. It's got special florescent lamps in it full spectrum but I'm going to put in some safe lights. My loupe is a new Pentax (go figure!) I like it. I have about a dozen papersafes for the different papers I use in the sizes I use and an empty one always next to my enlarger for that "extra" print. About 3 dozen trays from 5x7 to 20x24 and the same amount of reels and hangers mainly Hewes, 35mm, 120, 220 and 4x5. At all seems and is grandiose but I've paid my dues doing years of all nighters working in closets, laundry rooms and shared ridiculous school darkrooms. But having finally attained the darkroom of my dreams I've found myself in the past year barely ever in it. I've got some film to run. But mainly I'm not shooting silver black and white film anymore. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon New-improved http://rabinergroup.com/