Lets See Your Darkroom

[manet]

Wow ! Spacious darkrooms.

jp

[cosmicexplosion]

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

[jp]

The girls joined me for film processing this morning. They like the purple water from the prewash. Keeps them busy for a good hour.


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.

[jp]

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New dark room in shipping container

I'd love to have a shipping container for a darkroom or shop. Weather's a little extreme here for it to be usable year round though unless it was heated/ac'd/insulated. If I weren't married, I'd have a bunch of them.

[cosmicexplosion]

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!

[Mark_S]

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.



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.



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.



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.



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.

[MrFujicaman]

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.

[jp]

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.

Put a print holding screen under the hand dryer and you've got a dry-down testing station!

[Dave Langendonk]

Dave, that's one nice darkroom you have. All the goodies you could ever want!

Thanks Erik. It's working out pretty well so far. When I retire I'll be building hopefully my last darkroom and I'll probably relocate the Kreonite processor. It's a little awkward where it sits now. That's assuming I can still get RA-4 chemistry then!

[Dave Langendonk]

I have recently finished a semi-permanent darkroom in the house that we are renting...

That's a pretty nice darkroom considering you are renting. Interesting approach with the Jobo recessed into the cabinet. I assume its supported underneath?