I've been lurking off and on for awhile. Generally I find my self getting overwhelmed quickly by all of the information. There is so much more than I ever imagined there could be.
I learned the very basics with 35mm in my high school journalism class. I have never considered myself as a good photographer, but I caught on quickly inside the darkroom and loved being in there. I only had a year and half to learn and experiment. I was the best amongst my peers at successfully developing the film, especially loading the reels which I frequently did for others.
Shortly after high school I bought an enlarger and some supplies of EBay and briefly had a darkroom in my basement. After starting a family and moving a couple times the darkroom never happened again. I have recently gotten the bug again and have started putting together a darkroom in my current home. The corner of the basement has been cleaned out and I have started the light proofing process. I have a standing height counter for the enlarger and a large restaurant stainless steel sink that I found for $50 for the wet side. It will be a challenge to finish out the light proofing due to the obstructions in the ceiling at various heights, but I hope to have it done soon.
In the last two years I came across two auctions with a pretty decent stock pile of equipment. The first action was from a police station that I won for $30 and the second was a school that completed switched to digital and I was the top bidder at $50. I now have 5 enlargers of various types, 6 enlarger timers, around a dozen easels, two color analyzers, two paper safes, several boxes of unexposed paper (old), chemical storage tanks, several grain focusers, countless number of SS and plastic reels for both 35mm and 120 with tanks to match. I have way more than I need. The attached photo is showing most of the $50 purchase.
I have a variety of older, manual 35mm SLR's that I've collect over the years and I also have my mother-in-law's twin-lens reflex camera that I'm excited to try out and make prints with. That is something I've never used before.
I will probably crawl back under my rock and go back to lurking, but figured I would go ahead and introduce myself.
Jeremy
I learned the very basics with 35mm in my high school journalism class. I have never considered myself as a good photographer, but I caught on quickly inside the darkroom and loved being in there. I only had a year and half to learn and experiment. I was the best amongst my peers at successfully developing the film, especially loading the reels which I frequently did for others.
Shortly after high school I bought an enlarger and some supplies of EBay and briefly had a darkroom in my basement. After starting a family and moving a couple times the darkroom never happened again. I have recently gotten the bug again and have started putting together a darkroom in my current home. The corner of the basement has been cleaned out and I have started the light proofing process. I have a standing height counter for the enlarger and a large restaurant stainless steel sink that I found for $50 for the wet side. It will be a challenge to finish out the light proofing due to the obstructions in the ceiling at various heights, but I hope to have it done soon.
In the last two years I came across two auctions with a pretty decent stock pile of equipment. The first action was from a police station that I won for $30 and the second was a school that completed switched to digital and I was the top bidder at $50. I now have 5 enlargers of various types, 6 enlarger timers, around a dozen easels, two color analyzers, two paper safes, several boxes of unexposed paper (old), chemical storage tanks, several grain focusers, countless number of SS and plastic reels for both 35mm and 120 with tanks to match. I have way more than I need. The attached photo is showing most of the $50 purchase.
I have a variety of older, manual 35mm SLR's that I've collect over the years and I also have my mother-in-law's twin-lens reflex camera that I'm excited to try out and make prints with. That is something I've never used before.
I will probably crawl back under my rock and go back to lurking, but figured I would go ahead and introduce myself.
Jeremy
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