Wow ! Spacious darkrooms.
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Wow ! Spacious darkrooms.
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Water proof floor with pic showing sink on left controllable to .02 degrees
From a colour lab
At mo I only have 67 enlarger
As 108 won't fit
But have been offered a 45 so may install
I will be offering up for lease during work hours as is not used
Has all the bells and whistles
I vowed never to go to ikea
But those sexy shelves might just break my will
:)
The girls joined me for film processing this morning. They like the purple water from the prewash. Keeps them busy for a good hour.
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Here the My Little Pony is getting crushed in the jaws of a combiplan tank clip.
A car made out of 2 film reels and a ruler.
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It's a big relief from using laundry corner
I have a good extractor fan with 3 outlets placed as close to sink as possible so air is good.
I tested with nag champa incense and you could not smell it.
You do need dehumidifier as its a pretty well sealed unit.
Last week I left jobo on high after doing a. Shoot and negs coming out blank or faint, I was so disheartened I left my toys out and came back 3 days later with water dripping from roof
Half the jobo water was in the air!
The dehumidifier was full.
My solution is to run a tube from de humidifier tub outside and put it on a timer so it will never fill.
I will also put extraction fan on timer to purge for hour after I leave.
It takes 1.4 minutes to extract all 24 cubic meters of air!
But yeah I'll throw a roof on for summer
And a/c if needed.
The only issue I had with fans was it vibrated whole container so I had to mount away from container and use conduit to connect.
A caravan might be a better option as you can then tow for free!
I have recently finished a semi-permanent darkroom in the house that we are renting. There is a room behind the garage which I converted, covering the windows with plywood, and bringing water in to the room through the ply.
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There is a small dry work area, with a cupboard that I built for chemical storage. On the right of the image you can see the revolving door.
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On the wet side, there is a cabinet that holds the Jobo (storage for tubes and bottles below, and it drains into the sink) and two 6' long sinks. I mostly use one for the chemicals, and the second for washing, although things get moved around depending on what I am doing. Wire shelf above the sink so I can wash things and then put them up there to dry.
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A row of clothes pins to hold drying film over the sink. The sinks are plumbed with hot and cold water, as well as tempered water - the tempered water comes from the grey plastic valves mounted on the back walls of the sinks.
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Opposite the sink is the enlarger (a Beseler 45MX with the Ilford MG-600 head on it), and a dry mount press. Both on tables that I built. Under the enlarger is storage for paper and easels, under the dry mount press are print drying screens.
I like the idea of a shipping container as a darkroom...those containers are very heavily built and if you lock the container doors with a high quality lock, they are very hard to break into. I really liked the idea of the electric hand dryer !
I'm working on building a darkroom into a 48' semi-trailer I bought for storage several years ago. I've scrapped most of what was in it and have cleared out a 20' long section that will be the darkroom.