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I did only contact printing for the first year I was in large format and those are still some of my favourite (wee) prints. Until you get a darkroom with an enlarger, contact printing will teach you a lot about exposure and negatives. The computer is one way to go but I find that very unsatisfying and I prefer contact prints. Film is very sensitive.įor printing, a closet is not great, even a big one, because of the fumes. If you go the closet route, you may have to work at night, or hang a curtain or blanket over the door. You just need a dark place for enough time to load a daylight processor. Which might be just enough to satisfy your "sweet tooth" until a better arrangement comes along.Īs others have pointed out, for developing film, you don't need a darkroom. They will develop 4x5s in E-6, C-41, or D-76 process great service, but at 3 bucks a sheet. If all else fails, shoot chromes and send them to A&I in Los Angeles. Downsides, of course, are inability to do a traditional enlargement and a moderate loss of detail, which kind of relegates this to a more-or-less close-up application using swing and tilt effects as the cake's icing.
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At around ISO 4, you can get some really interesting long exposures, even in daylight, and skip the total-darkness aspect of the film handling.
Touch spots, streaks, and uneven development became its calling card, and the contraption was quickly abandoned.Īs an alternative, which I've done with really good results, you might consider shooting with paper negatives. At one point I acquired a "Yankee" tank, but it proved to have just as much an attitude as its namesake (insert chuckle sound effect here). Barring that, I would recommend the "tube" type of tank. I ended up resorting to tray development in a closet for the 4x5 film. As I recall, I had a newborn in the house at the time, and all of the supplies and such were shuttled into a back bedroom on the nights when I was "Going Dark."ĭeveloping the film is a little trickier. It helped having a friend join me for the chit-chat and to advance the prints that way I could have up to three going through the development simultaneously. "Go Time" was generally about 10pm, and I worked into the night. Two sawhorses suspended a pair of 2x4s on which sat the enlarger and trays.
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I would then use the kitchen as a darkroom on nights when there wasn't any thunderstorm activity or full moon naturally, I would spend a few hours in the afternoon prior putting black-out cloth over the windows and black masking tape over the various LED lights on all the kitchen appliances. Not sure how much of an option this is, but a few years back I used to keep an enlarger and trays tucked away in a portion of the kitchen.
If you're talking about printing black and white:
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