Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]These are luxury goods. Trays are cheap and last forever. A siphon works pretty well for washing if you don't do big runs. Space is the most expensive, but I've done a lot of printing on top of washing machines with plywood over the window. Working at night helps. Mike D > Other things to take into account that level the playing field quite a bit: > > Space. Digital or a semi-digital workflow is much cheaper than > becoming a responsible adult and buying a house. Like I could get a > mortgage anyway. > > The costs of an archival B&W setup such as yours are heady - an 11x14 > Nova processor retails for more than $500 ordered through Nova (no US > distributor), the cheapest 11x14 archival washer is $200+ and the > 'good' ones are more like $5-600. A good, used enlarger with a VC head > is several hundred. Chemicals are cheap, paper increasingly less so. > > -- > MP > wooderson@gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >