Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Man, I'd love to party with this guy for a few months. I imagine it's amazing what one can do with one developer/one film same process day in and day out for a few years. Scott Christopher Williams wrote: >>From PMA news: > >"Burmese photographer uses traditional and homemade techniques for tourist >snaps" > > >"Burmese photographer Sein Win has spent the last 35 years recording >tourists on 35mm film, the Bangkok Post reports. As tourists approach the >Shwezigon Pagoda in Bagan, Burma, via a long covered walkway, they encounter >Sein Win's darkroom among an array of souvenir stalls. Sein Win comes out >clutching his 1970s vintage Ricoh camera. Within minutes, tourists are >shepherded into the grounds of the pagoda while Sein Win takes photos >against the golden spires. He takes seven shots, getting different angles >and view points. Then it's off to the darkroom, a small wooden cubicle >measuring approximately a square metre. Here the seven frames of film are >removed from the camera and wound into the spiral of his developing tank. > Temperatures inside the room are frequently well in excess of 100 degrees >Fahrenheit, which is why the film develops so fast, the article says. The >hotter the chemicals, the shorter the developing time. Developed, fixed, and >dried with a hair dryer in about three minutes. "See,'' he says, "no >computer, no minilab. Just me and my developing tank." > Then the strip of film is inserted into his homemade enlarger which >consists of a tin can containing a light bulb with a lens attached to the >base of the can. Sein Win doesn't use a clock to time the exposures or a >thermometer to measure the temperature of the developer. Both the film and >the prints are developed in the same solution. Then, within another three >minutes, just as the sign in the front of his cubicle claims, the prints are >done to a turn, the article says. While the emulsion on the surface of the >paper is still soft, he etches a personal message onto the image with a nail >before the prints are dried with the hair dryer and presented to the >client." > > >Chris > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >