What are your dark room "luxuries?"

[EdSawyer]

Great darkroom tools are mostly pretty cheap these days so it's easy to splurge:

Apo El Nikkor lens

Beseler 45VXL

Beseler/Minolta 45A color head/analyzer - back in the day these were about $2600. Now they are a pittance. I use one but have 5 or 6 full spare sets, all for under $150 ea.

Fujimoto CP-31 and CP-51 print processors. Also have a full spare CP-31 setup because for $100, why not?

Phototherm Super Sidekick SSK-4. Bought new on ebay for about 1/10 the original cost. A fantastic film processor.

[Fred L]

The Summitek print washer and Salthill print dryers would be my luxuries, especially considering neither are made anymore.

[Old-N-Feeble]

Great darkroom tools are mostly pretty cheap these days so it's easy to splurge:

Apo El Nikkor lens

Beseler 45VXL

Beseler/Minolta 45A color head/analyzer - back in the day these were about $2600. Now they are a pittance. I use one but have 5 or 6 full spare sets, all for under $150 ea.

Fujimoto CP-31 and CP-51 print processors. Also have a full spare CP-31 setup because for $100, why not?

Phototherm Super Sidekick SSK-4. Bought new on ebay for about 1/10 the original cost. A fantastic film processor.

An Apo EL Nikkor "cheap"? Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!

[bill2424]

For me the best thing about my darkroom, since I live in Wisconsin is having a heated floor. I work barefoot most of the time. And also a good stereo is a must

[Robert Oliver]

Microwave oven!

[Tin Can]

For me the best thing about my darkroom, since I live in Wisconsin is having a heated floor. I work barefoot most of the time. And also a good stereo is a must

BAREFOOT! Ye-Gad's this is not California!

Sounds great to me!

[Tin Can]

Microwave oven!

OMG Thank you!

My 11 year old microwave has inner paint falling, and I replaced it 2 days ago.

It was going to be recycled the Chicago way, meaning the alley, but nope it will live on as print dryer.

What was I NOT thinking!

Face-palm!

[Jac@stafford.net]

Not my darkroom but a friend, well published in books, has a TV covered with a safelight in his darkroom. Me, I am happy with no such, but being damned near deaf I need nothing other than the music of visual tonalities.

[Nathan Potter]

Custom wet hood with laminar flow hepa filters, deep sink and built in light table for examining and drying film.

Wild binocular microscope with calibrated eyepiece reticle for examining film or mounting film/chromes for scanning.

The wet hood was the best thing I ever did to improve print quality by eliminating dust.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

[Ian Gordon Bilson]

Microwave for checking dry-down, and warming chemistry quickly. And caster wheels on a high stool -luxury.