No, the room doesn't freeze, thankfully! As for the chemicals, sometimes it's hard to bring them up to above 15°C. I'll look those up! Thanks!Presuming the room itself doesn't freeze between sessions, you can pick up a sous vide for as little as about $40 on eBay. Run a tub full of cold water, put your chemical bottles in, and start the sous vide -- go get a cup of coffee or hot cocoa, come back, and your chemicals will be ready to use. It's a compact, fairly lightweight device, smaller than a 2 liter bottle, so easy enough to bring with you or store in a locker if you keep your stuff there.
The water/ambient temperature is cold enough to keep the chemicals at about 15°C, so yes, bringing my electric kettle would be a good idea this winter...I'm in the Paris region, btw. Thank you!Where are you located? Does the water run really cold in the winter? I have used an electric kettle to heat up water and then immerse the chemical in beakers (like a bain-marie) to bring them up to 20º. You can do this for film or prints. I will usually use a large metal steam-tray pan for this so I can warm all the solutions to temperature at the same time.
Constantly adding as finances permit.
Three enlargers , the Durst sadly has to go as it won't go to 16 x 20"
The black film dryer is made from coffee cans with a filter and a fan.
I dry the negatives on the reel, that way the fan has only to push water off the width of the negative.
The dry side has a Seal press and a matt cutter.
A roll of unneeded Ektalure sits in the corner!
I would like to trade all the enlargers for an LPL 4500 .
As it is I like to sit at the Beseler and control the timer through a footswitch.
Not shown is a 7 ft sink and the old stereo on top of the cabinets.
Since retirement this is my favourite room!
If you mount the enlarger on the wall, about 20cm above the table/easel, it will print 16x20.
Two ! Thomas safe lights.
Is that not too bright.
I had fogging with one in a 13 ft x 10 ft darkroom..
This is my mini darkroom in my motorhome conversion. It does function. The shower doubles as the film drying cabinet.
Well, my 11x14 easel did not arrive yesterday like it was supposed to, but my Darkroom Automation F-Stop timer with foot switch did arrive on Friday. Here is my darkroom after rebuilding the sink and remaking the window portal covers much as it appeared 10 or so years ago when I thought I was done with it....it is in a small 10x10 spare bedroom in my old house. It is meagerly equipped right now but totally at a level of functionality (minus the easel of course); I left myself short of some 8x10 trays and amber colored 32 ounce glass bottles when ordering, I really need a couple more of each but can do for now. I am familiar with TMX 100 and will try to standardize my processes with it in XTOL (unreplenished for the time being but will look into that in due time). I will get back into the swing of things as it relates to printing with 8x10 RC paper from Iford but will move back into FB, also in due time. Items that I sold years ago but will be looking to acquire again in the future will be a densitometer and a step wedge.......I'v never had a dry mount press but would like to get a decent used one. EDIT, will also be looking to put down some protection for the hardwood floor.
I always sandwich my prints between sheets of archival mount board in the press. Wipe the sheets clean every session--no spots, no indents.require regular tedious cleaning of a larger platen to keep your prints spotless
Well, my 11x14 easel did not arrive yesterday like it was supposed to, but my Darkroom Automation F-Stop timer with foot switch did arrive on Friday. Here is my darkroom after rebuilding the sink and remaking the window portal covers much as it appeared 10 or so years ago when I thought I was done with it....it is in a small 10x10 spare bedroom in my old house. It is meagerly equipped right now but totally at a level of functionality (minus the easel of course); I left myself short of some 8x10 trays and amber colored 32 ounce glass bottles when ordering, I really need a couple more of each but can do for now. I am familiar with TMX 100 and will try to standardize my processes with it in XTOL (unreplenished for the time being but will look into that in due time). I will get back into the swing of things as it relates to printing with 8x10 RC paper from Iford but will move back into FB, also in due time. Items that I sold years ago but will be looking to acquire again in the future will be a densitometer and a step wedge.......I'v never had a dry mount press but would like to get a decent used one. EDIT, will also be looking to put down some protection for the hardwood floor.
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