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Am recruiting some more hands to help manage the darkroom this year, I'd like to be able to keep a closer eye on its use and maintenance but I simply don't have enough time to do it justice alone. Ergo the want to engineer out some bad habits.

The darkroom is part of a university building, I'm tempted to go down this route for all but one reason; "how are you disposing of your chemicals?". Somehow I don't feel "we pour developer down the drain" is something they'd be happy to hear (even if it is incredibly dilute). There's a chemical...

Something I missed in the OP; we have four funnels of varying sizes from tiny to HUGE but alas they see too little use...

Hi all, We've currently got ID-11, multigrade developer, Ilford rapid fixer and Ilfostop available for people to use in our darkroom. As it stands, the ID-11 and rapid fixer are kept in a 5l bottles (at 1+0 and 1+4 dilutions respectively). Users are instructed not to dilute either of these, to...

Sorry for the belated response to this, I'm not a keen nor experienced presenter, besides that it went alright. I asked a few people to prepare answers to the question "Why do you shoot film?" before I started presenting, and that struck up some decent conversation between the society members...

The thing is it's going to be an intro talk for some people, while others will be more experienced so I'm trying to put a bit in for everyone. The way I'm thinking of handling this is by having the "super important" bits written in a different colour/highlighted, so people who are completely new...

I've added a link to one of the YouTube videos of the 20x24" polaroid camera to the section about film formats, and a link to a video of a wet plate of Thunberg in the fixer bath (there's a slide with a list of alt processes at the beginning as a little reminder that there's plenty of other...

I'm throwing things together in a google slides presentation, I've got enough of my own photographs to give examples of the effects of most things. Besides that I'm thinking of bringing along some 8x10 prints, some printouts of some of Ilford's technical datasheets, and maybe using a bit of...

Hi all! I'm currently preparing a "film 101" presentation that I'll be giving to a university society, and just thought I'd throw what I've covered in it up here to check if anyone can spot any obvious gaps in the content. I'm expecting a range of abilities here from roughly "I opened my...

Update: There was likely dust in the heating element/fan which comes after the filter. Either that, or it was a problem with my water. No idea, both have changed! I'm now rather contentedly getting lovely clean, dry negatives in under 20 minutes after pulling them out of the tank! The dream!

I'm intending to do this with some high contrast negatives onto multigrade paper. This is an ingenious idea. I won't be able to get back with results for a couple of months, but I'm planning to print patterns onto acetate to make my screens. I'll definitely try this.

Awesome, thank you!

I think I might try and make a screen by simply using an inkjet printer on acetate. I'm fairly certain the pattern I need is a crisscross like this, correct?: Perhaps with finer holes.

Having a read of the following: http://www.ted.photographer.org.uk/photoscience_halftones.htm#Screen%20Effects I was under the impression I'd be able to place the screen above the paper I'm printing onto like an old texture screen? I'm probably stupid and I'm looking for something else entirely...

Hi, I'd like to make some halftone prints using a halftone screen to get all the little dots. I'm aware this is typically now done digitally, but I'd love to be able to do it in the darkroom. Problem is, I've no clue where I could get my hands on a halftone screen in this day and age. I'm...