35 years

Hi,

I live in Maine and 35 years ago I shot black and white and developed and printed in my parents upstairs bathroom. I am probably the only one who knows why there is a stain on the floor where I spilled the developer. For many years after that I shot Kodachrome 25 on vacations. I now shoot digital on vacations.

Recently I felt sorry for my idle camera and had a desire to shoot some black and white again. It seems PanX is no longer available, so I got a few rolls of FP4. I dug my enlarger out of the basement. It is one of those Russian in a briefcase units. It took a bit to clean up as the foam lining had turned to crispy dust. I also found some 35 year old dektol and fixer and some Agfa Brovira.

Somewhere in the posts I followed a link to KEH. I now have a Waltax 645 folder in the mail in my direction. Not much spent, but I checked my enlarger and it doesn't come close to covering anything larger than 35mm.

This seems like a great forum. I have already read many posts with some great info.

Ron

 

Thanks

Thanks to all for the welcome. I think the little enlarger does ok. I do remember some newton rings that I did battle with. And also some shadows caused by the bulb filament when it was partly in focus, so I started using ground glass in the filter tray.

See if I can post a link...this is a copy ( I don't have a scanner ) of a print I made years ago. I never did anything with it as the developer was exhausted when I made the print. The blacks are a little brown for the Brovira paper.