Starship darkroom

[Mainecoonmaniac]

Take a look at this darkroom. Captain Kirk would work here.

http://petapixel.com/2014/11/17/basement-darkroom-designed-look-like-bridge-spaceship/

 

[Valerie]

That is completely awesome!!! :alien:

 

[eclarke]

Way too clean..

 

[bobwysiwyg]

And.. cleaner than my kitchen.

 

[mike c]

Talk about having space for a darkroom!!

Mike

 

[winger]

Cleaner than any room in my house could ever be for longer than a millisecond. And wicked awesome!

 

[Bruce Osgood]

How can he find anything?

 

[Truzi]

Reminds of of 2001: A Space Odyssey (or perhaps Quark?).

 

[AgX]

Here the apt music for the tape-machine in that darkroom:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ukfGAd8T4

 

[Sirius Glass]

Does it make the results any better?

does it eliminate stupid mistakes?

 

[Truzi]

I do wonder about it being white - I imagine a dim safelight would seem brighter, though could it also make it less safe?

 

[MattKing]

I do wonder about it being white - I imagine a dim safelight would seem brighter, though could it also make it less safe?

White is the great colour for a darkroom, unless it isn't light tight.

If you are wondering about reflections, here is mine (with my old enlarger). Note that on the right there is a wall size mirror!

 

[Mainecoonmaniac]

If Captain Kirk printed in the that darkroom

Does it make the results any better?

does it eliminate stupid mistakes?

He'd do method printing. Everything is over dodged and burned with a dramatic flair.

 

[Sirius Glass]

What if he under dodged and and under burned, would that eliminate the flare?

 

[MontanaJay]

Get a load of this darkroom:

http://petapixel.com/2014/11/17/bas...feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+PetaPixel+(PetaPixel)

 

[Sirius Glass]

This has already been posted. Please merge the threads.

 

[gone]

Uh, all that white is going to cause issues. Darkrooms should be black to dampen reflections.

 

[Rhodes]

One of those rooms from the Enterprise that was never showed!

 

[Maris]

Yes, but where's the darkroom sink, the trays, the archival washer, the drying screens, the dry-mount press, the stock of mount board and frames, etc, etc, ... I see an enlarger but no visible capacity to seriously process and finish enlargements.

 

[frank]

My darkroom looks more like from the Middle Ages/Merlin's workshop.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Threads merged.

About the color--I thought that black darkrooms were considered old-fashioned some 50 years ago. You might need to black out the area around the enlarger, but in general, you want a light colored darkroom to reflect the safelight and create a more pleasant working environment.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Uh, all that white is going to cause issues. Darkrooms should be black to dampen reflections.

My darkroom walls are off white ad that have never caused a problem.

 

[Roger Cole]

Uh, all that white is going to cause issues. Darkrooms should be black to dampen reflections.

No it won't and no they shouldn't.

White is best. I painted the walls in my old purpose built darkroom white. NO issues, much better visibility under (tested safe) safelight. Exception - area immediately around the enlarger, all of which leak at least a bit.

EDIT: Continued reading and I see that David and Sirius agree with me, and of course I with them. Well first time for everything, eh Sirius?

 

[Rhodes]

My "darkroom" is a small bathroom, all white, the floor and wall titles plus the sinks, toilet, etc. I think that helps to see better with the safety lights on and I also never had a problem with it, well besides burning a safety and the enlarger lens but that's another story!

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

My darkrooms have always had white walls and ceilings but I hung black cloth on the areas around the enlarger.