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    Robert Bowring
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    Re: What are your dark room "luxuries?"

    Kodak static eliminator. Bought mine for $15 when a local guy was closing his darkroom. Cleaning the negative is so much easier than spotting prints. There is one for sale on Madison, WI craigslist for $20.

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    Re: What are your dark room "luxuries?"

    Thomas Safelight. Pivoting Ethan Allen barstool with back. Individual enlargers for Minox, Leica V35, Omega 6x7, 4x5 and 5x7. Other than that, pretty standard stuff. It's a long way from a Graflarger in a dorm room. (No, we didn't use candles in those days -- I ain't THAT old!)
    Wilhelm (Sarasota)

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    multiplex
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    Re: What are your dark room "luxuries?"

    a bunch of 4x4x8's cut down as a step ( sink goes deep )
    cheap radio with a cassette deck
    and a sweatshirt ( it gets cold )

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    Re: What are your dark room "luxuries?"

    My Reinholdt (did I spell his name right?) dodging tools. You can get much cheaper tools, or make them yourself. But after using his, I never want to go back.
    Michael W. Graves
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    If it ain't broke....don't fix it!

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    Re: What are your dark room "luxuries?"

    Hass Intellifaucet. RH Design Stop Clock Pro. Jobo CPP-2.
    “You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
    ― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know

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    Re: What are your dark room "luxuries?"

    Having a darkroom. Actually, my darkroom is a corner of my home office, that I've set up so I can make dark enough to print.

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    Re: What are your dark room "luxuries?"

    The very "existence" of a darkroom.

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    Re: What are your dark room "luxuries?"

    My darkroom luxury is a Durst 138 for 5x7....otherwise i'd be contact printing larger sizes and enlarging 4x5. The Durst really brought 5x7 alive for me.

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    Re: What are your dark room "luxuries?"

    Magnetic stirer / hotplate. Bought from the want ads here a few years ago. I use it to mix PC-Glycol, the basis for my usual print developer. Occasionally used for film too. Makes the glycol part much easier than other heating methods.

    My enlarger is an LPL 4x5 with colorhead. I think it's a luxury also. But since I only do B/W, maybe the VCCE head would be the true luxury.

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    (Shrek)
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    Re: What are your dark room "luxuries?"

    Good stereo, plus now a TV with Netflix. I have a darkened corner where I can do full-dark tasks like loading and unloading film holders, and the enlarger is shielded from the TV by a separator, so I can just see it from the corner of my eye. I'm still looking for an amber or red cellophane sheet big enough to place in front of the screen to make it safe enough to bring closer.

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