Hi, just wanted to introduce myself. To some peoples surprise I am planning a darkroom. It was over 15 years since I used one but I really had the urge when I found out how fun it was to develop my film shot with my Leica M6 or my russian Iskra II and scanned the negs. But I wasn't really able to make nice prints with those scans. And it was quite boring sitting in front of the computer; something I do a lot anyway...
So I bought a second hand Durst M70 with colour head and a Nikkor 50/2.8 and a Schneider Componon-S 80/4.
In a quite chaotic night in the kitchen I actually made some really nice large prints! This is even more fun than developing the films! So, the next step will be to make a darkroom in the basement in a couple of weeks, without running water, but otherwise with space so I can have most of the equipment permanently set up. What I like about the wet printing compared to the scanning is that it actually is so fast to work with. You expose the paper for a couple of seconds, develop for a minute, or something, 30 sec in the stop and then into the fixer for say a minute before you can turn on the light and look at the finished picture.
So Apug seems to be a good place to search and ask all the questions as I start to fine tune my work and experiment with fb-paper, toners, home brew developers, etc.
/matti
So I bought a second hand Durst M70 with colour head and a Nikkor 50/2.8 and a Schneider Componon-S 80/4.
In a quite chaotic night in the kitchen I actually made some really nice large prints! This is even more fun than developing the films! So, the next step will be to make a darkroom in the basement in a couple of weeks, without running water, but otherwise with space so I can have most of the equipment permanently set up. What I like about the wet printing compared to the scanning is that it actually is so fast to work with. You expose the paper for a couple of seconds, develop for a minute, or something, 30 sec in the stop and then into the fixer for say a minute before you can turn on the light and look at the finished picture.
So Apug seems to be a good place to search and ask all the questions as I start to fine tune my work and experiment with fb-paper, toners, home brew developers, etc.
/matti
