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Do you need a darkroom? Just add wheels ......

A bullet proof darkroom, just what I've always needed

To me portable means it will fit in my camera bag.
 
complete with rocket launchers n bombs.
 
looks like its got some serious extraction fans. I wonder if they're nuclear and biological proof.
 
We had 4 in our unit. They were essentially the same, but housed in canvas quonset huts and no air conditioning. We had the 60KW generator to park nearby and the units had wood floors. They packed as transportable units that could be set up in a very short time.

We set them up, used them and took them down repeatedly for practice, and transported them over a vast area of the globe. To give an illustration, two of my predecessors were killed in the line of duty.

PE
 
I couuld buy two so that I could process the film shot with a stereo camera!
 
I do like the comment with the idea of buying a surplus truck as well. Seems like a rather lovely combo.
 
We should all chip in, buy one of these as surplus, clean it up and trick it out, then have it shipped to Sean in New Zealand.

Just to say thanks...



Ken
 
Ken Nadvornick said:
We should all chip in, buy one of these as surplus, clean it up and trick it out, then have it shipped to Sean in New Zealand.

Just to say thanks...



Ken
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You are in charge of explaining the addition to their driveway to his wife.
 
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MattKing said:
Your in charge of explaining the addition to their driveway to his wife.
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Beats explaining a new addition to their house...

Besides, I have decades of experience explaining unjustifiable photo purchases to a spouse.



Ken
 
I've seen this thing on sale all over the internet. It caught my eye on eBay about a year ago; the asking price at the time was $7500. I found a whole US Army manual describing it and the soldiers that used it as well as photos taken and printed from it. An engineer relative of mine speculated that it must have gotten really warm inside.
 
I mentioned this to my wife, saying this could free up room in the basement.

She immediately replied it would also free up room in our bank account.

So I'll have to pass. Married to a woman smarter than yourself can be both a blessing and a curse!
 
The Air Force had similar units, some were used in Southeast Asia in Vietnam and Thailand. I had an occasion to print in one, even with AC it was pretty warm, but had a water chiller, a D5 fixed to the workbench with a built in easel. Other may have better memoires but I recall that some were set up just for printing, other for film developing, some both printing and developing. Units show up on Ebay every once and a while, don't know of anyone who has one, not all that practicable here in the low desert. Don't know what it would cost to covert a shipping container to a darkroom. For that matter is someone had land 2 shipping containers, one for wet side the other dry side.
 
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