Lets See Your Darkroom

[picker77]

Hmm... I didn't see one single DRY darkroom in the bunch. I envy all you guys with plumbing. My DR is in a 14x25 room partitioned off in the rear of a 25x55 shop 150' from the house. It's heated and air conditioned and has 100MB Ethernet service from my house network, but I have to hump Culligan 5-gal bottles for a darkroom water supply for rotary processing for film and and trays for prints. OTOH, I've found that carrying prints and film to the house for a final wash isn't all that bad once you get used to it, and we all do what we gotta do.

So don't use "no plumbing" as an excuse to not have a DR!

[Bazz8]

Hmm... I didn't see one single DRY darkroom in the bunch. I envy all you guys with plumbing. My DR is in a 14x25 room partitioned off in the rear of a 25x55 shop 150' from the house. It's heated and air conditioned and has 100MB Ethernet service from my house network, but I have to hump Culligan 5-gal bottles for a darkroom water supply for rotary processing for film and and trays for prints. OTOH, I've found that carrying prints and film to the house for a final wash isn't all that bad once you get used to it, and we all do what we gotta do.

So don't use "no plumbing" as an excuse to not have a DR!

So true mine is still waiting for that detail if I had to I would do without plumbing
but this is my last droom and so I will have plumbing.

[sepiareverb]

The darkroom desk, with a lightbox set in it. ND filters keep me from being blinded when loading neg. carriers.


The LPL 4500 in the front, the Zone VI 810 behind.


The sinks. The main sink allows 4 20x24 trays, the wash sink is lower so I can load the 20x24 washer without a ladder.

[Ulrich Drolshagen]

So this is mine:

A very old Homrich enlarger with Chromega E head. Ahead on the wall is the box with the fan of the venting system to be seen. The room is L-shaped and not very spacious.

My Duco 66 enlarger with stabilized power supply. There is nearly no stray light from the enlarger so there is no need for a black wall behind it. The Homrich is another story. I still have to deal with this. To the left the tray table with vent duct above.

Meteor darkroom sinks with a 16x20 Nova-Washer in the larger one.

Dry workspace in another room we have just renovated. On the left the Ademco 2026 which I've repaired with new heating elements last year. Up till now I only use it to flatten fiber prints. On the table the drying screens. I do not have enough space for a rack so they are just stacked one above the other with pieces of wood as spacers.

Ulrich

[soeren]

Picker 77
Then you may have missed my DR (post 78). I don't have plumbing either
Best regards

[Bazz8]

So true mine is still waiting for that detail if I had to I would do without plumbing
but this is my last droom and so I will have plumbing.

Well plumbing has been installed with the drain and all that stuff, the SS sink I have has
an outlet but its a 50mm diameter with no thread to fix the waste to so cut of a threaded section from a toitet sistern and silaconed in place. My observation is as a plumber I make a good carpenter
next step a 400mm width low sink which will empty into the 400 deep SS sink for my tubes and jobo.
bought 10 x1200x400x16 white melamine boards for the shelving I plan to have open shelves under the sink for drying racks etc.
inching closer.

[Brian Ellis]

Hmm... I didn't see one single DRY darkroom in the bunch. I envy all you guys with plumbing. My DR is in a 14x25 room partitioned off in the rear of a 25x55 shop 150' from the house. It's heated and air conditioned and has 100MB Ethernet service from my house network, but I have to hump Culligan 5-gal bottles for a darkroom water supply for rotary processing for film and and trays for prints. OTOH, I've found that carrying prints and film to the house for a final wash isn't all that bad once you get used to it, and we all do what we gotta do.

So don't use "no plumbing" as an excuse to not have a DR!

Just like my first darkroom except that mine wasn't heated, wasn't air conditioned, had no plumbing, and was about 5'x6' in size. The one advantage I had over yours was that mine was closer to the kitchen so schlepping the water in, and the prints out, was easier.

But just try working in a Florida outdoor darkroom in the summer without air conditioning. It created a problem I've never seen addressed in any book - dilution of the developer caused by sweat dripping from your face into the tray.

[ic-racer]

This is my darkroom.

[Jon Wilson]

Very nice and well thought out use of space. I especially like your drying cabinet. Is that an electric "lift" to move up and down your enlarger's head and/or easel board?
Jon

[ic-racer]

The rest of the pictures.