Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, no mild winters here, at least until the global warming thing gets fired up :). Fortunately I had high ceilings, no prob with 16x20 prints with cropping from a 4x5 neg. I like inkjet, no darkroom health issues. The only one I worried about was pouring the platinum salts to spread over the paper. You use a shot glass, and the emulsion looked for all the world like single-malt under the dim lights. Ken (survived to the digital age so far) On 11/24/2010 7:26 PM, Marty Deveney wrote: > I'm setting a darkroom up, but I can sprout seeds outside in our mild > winters. I have some scary big stuff, including a Durst 184 like > George has. I'm going to need to get some construction done to get > that one installed; it's 2.4 m high with everything completely > lowered! > > Marty > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Ken Carney<kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: >> We are converting mine to a plant room for growing seedlings during the >> winter. All of the expensive stuff is long gone on ebay. It just isn't >> relevant any longer. If I want to go back to chemical printing it will >> surely be with platinum/palladium prints and enlarged digital negs, >> neither >> of which really require a darkroom. Just lots of $$$ given the price of >> the >> metals these days - probably about $20 or so for an 8x10 image on larger >> paper, and you sure don't get what you want on the first try. >> >> Ken >> >> On 11/24/2010 3:27 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: >>> still have the darkroom >>> complete with V35 (red dot), Durst 138, Durst 184 >>> and all related equipment >>> currently stacked full of stored items >>> unrelated to original purpose. >>>