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Re: I'm curious, how many of you run your own darkroom for printing and enlargement?
Full B&W and color traditional darkroom (Beseler 45MXT with 45S dichroic head and Beseler 23CII-XL with condensor head) and Jobo CPA2.
An antiquated digital darkroom (Epson 2200 printer and Epson 3200 scanner), LaCie electron blue IV, MonacoOPTIX colorimeter - all running on an ancient Dell Pentium IV machine. I really need to upgrade all aspects of the digital side - including adding a drum scanner - but the monitor is still running like new:)
Thomas
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Darkroom gear in storage for space reasons. I do have the space now, I just have to move a small wall and build a table and stuff. However, in the last 3 years it's been in storage, I've learned a lot about digital, so I don't know how much wet printing I will do once I get the energy to rebuild.
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Darkroom with a 4x5 enlarger. I do have a scanner but I just haven't been able to nail the same blacks with the subsequent prints. Will have to do more work on that. I do enjoy the darkroom more...not necessarily the cleanup though!
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Darkroom. Scanning only prints for web.
Dennis
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Darkroom, I develop negatives, both B&W or color, and make prints up to 16x20. Most of my photography these days is with LF and MF, my Nikon F100 hasn't been out of its bag for over two years. Right now the loft where my darkroom is located is so warm from the heat radiating out of the insulation that I am a couple of months from developing my inventory of exposed films.
I use digital but not for exhibition prints. I am currently using a Kodak Z990 for personal work and for preparing digital slides to project for presentations.
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Wet darkroom only.
Durst 184 with cold light head, Beseler 45VXL with cold light head, Beseler 45MXT with 8x10 conversion & cold light head.
Black & White only.
I use photoshop for drawing and illustrating not photography
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darkroom with 10x10 and 4x5 enlargers. jobo for my b+w, e6, and c41 processing.
screen drum scanners for doing color print workflow. output to someone else's chromira for ra-4 prints.
I'm 35, have two freezers full of film, and often feel like I was born 20 years too late.
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Had a darkroom for about five years at one point and about 15 years at another, later point. I stopped using the darkroom for printing when I decided to learn how to print digitally. That was about 8 years ago. I haven't had or wanted a darkroom for printing since then.
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Darkroom for B&W. Digital for color.
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I have always had darkrooms in the many apartments and a couple of houses I have rented through the years. I am now more settled and have two D2s and an old Leitz Focomat. When I worked for newspapers I did many 'remote' assignments where I set up crude makeshift darkrooms and then, to meet deadlines, transmitted my photos over the telephone with Associated Press wire transmitters which were very heavy to carry around. (This was in the '80s) I prefer printing the traditional way but find myself more and more scanning negatives. Silver paper is getting expensive! Robbie
http://robbiebedell.photoshelter.com
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Sold my 5x4 enlarger about 6 years ago , Since then only digital to print stage , some regrets , but i have to admit dodging & burning is far easier in a digital workflow, No tracing paper ,no masks ,cumbersome tools etc, I would have to say i am producing as good on digital(if not better) as with wet but far easier.Cheers Gary
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I have both a darkroom and a digital darkroom which I call the light room. I use both as income comes from both but I would prefer to have only the darkroom. :) ...except to chat with you all. :)
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Darkroom and very happy with it. I have a rudimentary scanner for uploading prints. I never scan negatives and have no desire to invest in or learn photoshop.
Dinosaur and proud of it.
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Printing room - which, given the fact that I almost exclusively work in "historical" practices, is in fact not "dark"… But on occasion I can turn off the lights to make the odd lith print… And yes, I love it "wet" - would be missing more than half of what makes photography's enjoyment for me!
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Wet darkroom with a 4X5 MX and a B22Xl which was the first real present my wife ever gave me. Also have a 5X7 Elwood need to set up some time once I have some negs to use it for. Digitally I can scan up to 6X9 on the Nikon and my wife has a Epson 3880 (I think or 4880) printer. The digitial darkoom is not quite totally set up yet. Plans are to be able to go from an anologue image to digital and from a digital image to analogue. I enjoy working in the darkroom although it some times requires more mental effort to go up there and set up as opposed to doing a couple images on the computer however once a session begins I ask myself why is it an effort. As long as I have space and enjoy the process I will wet print. I need to become better at the digital printing though.
In our house I think I am a film photographer who also shoots digiital and my wife is a digital photographer who also shoots film. In reality she is printmaker so we also have a bit of a printing studio with an etching press and in the garage next door we have a large plate table (NuArc) which may work. So that is the reason for being able to go either direction as the wife wishes to do photogravre in the future as well as photoetchings which she has done in the past. I can also ride two types of bikes, mountian and road and used to have both cats and dogs :)
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Darkroom for me...
Both B&W and Color printing!
I only scan if I need to post online, which I don't very often.
I never can get a scan to look as good as a print...
Here is an example, the print is lovely, the scan is ugly!
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Semi-permanent (permanent Jun-Oct) wet 4x5 darkroom that gets used a fair amount, but can also scan MF on Coolscan 9000 that gets almost no use, just as the V750 that works as an office scanner 99% of the time. :( Intention was to use those scanners for colour, but I just seem to do B&W all the time.
Silver prints get occasionally (way too rarely, must catch up) photographed digitally, with studio lighting, for inclusion on the web site.
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Just put down some money on a quaint house with a big outbuilding with *gasp* running water so I'll be setting up a more serious darkroom! :D :D :D
Right now my "darkroom" is a 1/2 bath and part of my office only at night :(
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I turned the daughter's bedroom in to my darkroom after she went off to college.
Before that I was using my laundry room as a temporary darkroom.
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Darkroom. Omega D5XL, Durst M605. Print B&W only, no color, up to 16x20. Shoot 4x5, 6x6 and a little bit'a 35mm. Ability to scan, but can't bring myself to actually do it. No digital printing whatsoever. Probly should think about getting that capability one of these days.
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b/w darkroom with enlarging up to 5x7, for 8x10 I make contact prints. I have a scanner but usually scan prints for the web site.
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mainly darkroom printing, sometimes I scan and "enlarge" 6x7 and 4x5 negatives on pictorico ohp for printing Kallitypes
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Only darkroom............
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Darkroom. Have very limited facilities for scanning, and none for digitally printing.
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Darkroom for B&W. Negative scan for color. Although, I aspire to print color in the darkroom if I can learn to color correct.
--Gary
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B&W only darkroom. Enlarge 4x5 and contract print 5x7 and 8x10 negatives.
Alan
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Darkroom, with the ability to scan and print... but little digital printing done except for enlarged negatives for contact printing large alt-process prints.
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I made a small film-loading and -processing only darkroom, I prefer to scan and print these days. But I have had full darkrooms in the ancient past.
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Darkroom... nothing quite like it. After all these years it is still magic.
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I do both, exclusively. Will scan a negative sometimes to see the detail, if my proof sheets aren't adequate.
Warren
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Darkroom only. So far I don't own a scanner.
I'm just begining to think to buy one just for the web and family.
Christian
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Darkroom only. B&W and color. Enlargers for formats up through 8x10. RA-4 print capability to 30"x40"
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I've had a darkroom since I was 17. First one was in my bedroom of my parents first house set up on a card table - I had a Durst 2-1/4 enlarger, 810 trays and 500 sheet box of metalist paper. Second Darkroom in parents second house dedicated 10x6' space, Besler MXT 4x5 enlarger w/45S Color head, Jobo CPP2, 16x20 trays then a Fujimoto 11x14 table top processor and Arkay drier. Last darkroom I have now still is in progress of completion is 14x14 next to my office in my house: 4x5 enlarger (see above), CPP2, ATL3, 20x24 trays, 8x10 Enlarger. I am working on a remote focus system for the 810 enlarger, desired result is to have the capacity to do 24x30 prints and have a dedicated tray for that size. Over the years I have acquired lots of stuff. I also scan using the V750.
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Mostly darkroom. B/W Enlargers up to 4x5 and print capability up to 3 feet+ unfortunately no colour darkroom yet also have to get an enlarger for 13x18cm negs.
I do scan but I prefer the Darkroom.
Dominik
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I've got an alt-process darkroom set up for developing film and contact printing in just about anything from platinum to gum to salt and even albumen (haven't done that one yet, but it's in the plans). I'm also kitted out to scan and print digitally, but that's done mostly for either web presentation or working in color.
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Darkroom... to be more precise in the process of building a new one since I moved. Image making is on hiatus for another couple of months.
Steve
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Darkroom for serious work, scanner for not so serious work.
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Darkroom since 1972.
Processing b&w, c-41 & E-6 film, 35mm up to 11x14.
Enlarging negs up to 8x10.
Contact printing larger negs .
The only use I have for a scanner is to post prints to internet.