RA4- if you stick to one or two films and one paper once you set it up printing is easier that B&W I think. Again, completely standardized process. Mostly all I am dealing with is small density adjustments.
Has anyone noticed a surge in interest in people setting up darkrooms?
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Michel Hardy-Vallée
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Among the population of 1 that I constitute, I have noted a 100% surge of interest in darkroom because of having nothing to do besides work during confinement.
The CBS commentator : "SG has had a series of meetings with the young folk and had converted a lot of them to analogue, delivering a pithy punchline each time at the end of the speech. However when he delivered the above at tonight's convention the crowd fell silent then began an ominous murmuring and quietly left the hall in what can only be described as a sullen mood
I fear it was SG's Dan Quayle moment that may come back to haunt him and may have lost him the support of all the youngsters
This is pentaxuser reporting from the Bay area convention hall where to make matters worse I am just receiving reports of green casts from Fuji films"
pentaxuser
Have you had these results peer-reviewed?
The CBS commentator : "SG has had a series of meetings with the young folk and had converted a lot of them to analogue, delivering a pithy punchline each time at the end of the speech. However when he delivered the above at tonight's convention the crowd fell silent then began an ominous murmuring and quietly left the hall in what can only be described as a sullen mood
I fear it was SG's Dan Quayle moment that may come back to haunt him and may have lost him the support of all the youngsters
This is pentaxuser reporting from the Bay area convention hall where to make matters worse I am just receiving reports of green casts from Fuji films"
pentaxuser
et tu Brute?
Nice one, Sirius
I just had a mental picture of an assemble group of late teens and early 20s' reaction if faced with a choice of giving up their phones for a Jobo. Personally I don't even own a mobile phone pentaxuser
MattKing
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Most now will wonder why you needed to include the word "mobile" in that sentence.
Eh, sorry if I was cranky. It's just that us gen-Xers don't take well to being confused with those avocado-smeared young hipster types.
This is currently my #1 motivation for continuing to contribute to retirement savings even though I halfway expect civilization to mostly collapse before I get there.
Good one Matt. I suppose in one way I do own a partially mobile phone in that it is a wireless phone that will operate over maybe a 50 feet radius from its docking station So Q: do I carry it around the garden just in case someone calls A: not unless I know of an important call that is known to be coming in during period I am in the garden
pentaxuser
Michel Hardy-Vallée
Membership Council
Through a Delphi analysis of a cross-sample integrating most relevant evidence-based decision factors, we have concluded that the Phi-0 number of our meta-critical discussion is clear for deployment in participant-based phase 3.
MattKing
Moderator
The science is settled!
Michel Hardy-Vallée
Membership Council
Can we have that in French as well?
S'il vous plaît.
Selon la dynamique propre au capitalisme tardif, nous avons avancé la conclusion qu'un théorisation ancrée permettait de définir, d'un point de vue phénoménologique, le champ des trajectoires subjectives propres au panoptique post-Kantien dans la logique de la distinction qui tertiarise les classes étagées selon une répartition inversée quant à la pyramide des âges suspectées dans notre échantillon-type, nous permettant ainsi de déconstruire la validation poppérienne de la tranche gratinée du sujet-type.
Funny you ask this! I’m 51 but I just posted on a social media platform asking if anyone wanted to pass on equipment as I just inherited a Rollei TLR.
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I've been too busy in my own darkroom to notice what anyone else might or might not be doing. Besides, every time I go out, I'm wearing a mask and my glasses fog up, so I don't see much of anything well.
I finished my new darkroom today.
Have had one until 2005, then digital rises.
So i put the things in the archive.
then... i found that professional 4x5 cameras are cheap now. Was my dream since i was young (long ago
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So i bought a small Plaubel (Peco Junior), then a Universal III ... and scanned the negatives. (Developing films with a bag in a combiplan.)
It was great. For a while.
There was something lacking.
Than i got a monster of a enlarger, an IFF Ampliator Color S2. Made for 13x18cm Film, with lenses ... too high to fit into the basement.
A coworker (26) started to shoot with the camera of her dad.
Another young man (about 20, i think) asked in ebay for old films, contacted him, send him some material overdue, he is developing in the bathroom now.
Others start with the old Pola-stuff. Fujii Instax is a success (here, Germany).
I think its on the flank of the RETRO-TREND...
But, if someone ever sees a print developing in reed light ... you will never miss that again.
We will see, i have not the impression that this technique is really dying.
Have had one until 2005, then digital rises.
So i put the things in the archive.
then... i found that professional 4x5 cameras are cheap now. Was my dream since i was young (long ago
.So i bought a small Plaubel (Peco Junior), then a Universal III ... and scanned the negatives. (Developing films with a bag in a combiplan.)
It was great. For a while.
There was something lacking.
Than i got a monster of a enlarger, an IFF Ampliator Color S2. Made for 13x18cm Film, with lenses ... too high to fit into the basement.
A coworker (26) started to shoot with the camera of her dad.
Another young man (about 20, i think) asked in ebay for old films, contacted him, send him some material overdue, he is developing in the bathroom now.
Others start with the old Pola-stuff. Fujii Instax is a success (here, Germany).
I think its on the flank of the RETRO-TREND...
But, if someone ever sees a print developing in reed light ... you will never miss that again.
We will see, i have not the impression that this technique is really dying.
If i had put in in the basement, i would had to shorten the tube.
Instead my wife allowed me to switch my working room in the 1st floor Ceiling is about 2.5m high, just high enough.
Instead my wife allowed me to switch my working room in the 1st floor Ceiling is about 2.5m high, just high enough.
Beseler is still selling new enlargers, parts, accessories...
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/sear...oHfiz3FrVcj0LIuPv47PQc5NWV9mJAzRoCEssQAvD_BwE
MattKing
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As are LPL and, IIRC, Keinzle (sp?).
True. I have to wonder, though, if they are selling any new stuff at these prices given that used darkroom gear can be had pretty cheaply.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/45418-REG/Omega_200667_LPL_670VCCE_6x7_Variable.html
MattKing
Moderator
KHB is the Canadian distributer for LPL. I'm waiting for their next shipment from Japan when they expect to be able to fill my order for a 6x4.5 carrier for my LPL 7700 enlargers.
I think there are still some schools buying new.
I think there are still some schools buying new.
Yeah, I'm sure they're selling new parts and accessories. I've bought some stuff recently for my Beseler enlarger from BH. I was wondering more about new enlarger sales, but you're probably right that schools might be buying new.
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