Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ---D Khong wrote: > > At 07:34 PM 13/2/99 -0400, you wrote: > As long as you are in the group and use a traditional style darkroom, I am > counting you in. Some of us use 50mm lemonlens made in bananaland. > > Dan K. > Please add me to your count: I have a "traditional darkroom" from more than 50 years; my first one was the floor under a closed staircase with three soup dishes taken from my mother's kitchen, without such luxuries as a red lamp or a contact printer, it was rally a DARKcloset. I developped the 116 Verichorme rollfilms from my 2A Brownie and made contact prints under a glass pane with print-out paper under the sun which were afterwards fixed in the corresponding soup dish! Now I have a Durst 605 enlarger with color head as well as a condenser head for black and white which is my main interest now but I ocasionally make color prints and have also made Cybachromes with wonderful results. My enlarger lenses are 50/4 Componon, 80 and 135 El Nikors, 135mm 5,6 Raptar Wollensak and some othe "lemons". As a "traditional" amateur I use not only LEICAS but also Rollei (SL66) and many other cameras for which I also have other enlargers like a 4x5 De Jur Professional, an old Zeiss Ikon 9x12cm autofocus, a color Minox and other Darkroom aids like a Jobo CPA processor al Thompson safelight etc.etc. but unfortunately not a bit of digital stuff (yet). I think that many other "Lugers" have also darkrooms but I imagine many of us are procastinating and lurking as I am. Please forgive us! :) Jose _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com