Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:49 AM 10/22/98 -0500, you wrote: > > >Hi Tina, > >Thanks for your responses. I seem to have lost the one about the size of >your darkroom, but remember being surprised that you have about the same >amount of space as I do. > >May I ask what is the size of your sink and trays? How much counter >space to you have? >What about drying racks? What's the maximum size print you can make? > Hi, Mary - My darkroom is 6x11. I have the kind of darkroom sink with a long built-in drainboard for the trays. I use 16x20 trays and there is room for three across the front, then I have a couple of racks with two more trays in the back and a Zone VI print washer, too. The five trays are because I usually use two fixing baths and one tray for PermaWash or hypo-clear. On the dry side I have old kitchen cabinets with a counter about 6 feet long. Most of this is taken up by my Ilford Cap40 processor. There is also room for my huge Chromega D5XL enlarger and my tiny Leica Focomat V35 enlarger. On the end wall I have mounted Falcon drying racks which will hold 40 prints; however, in the hallway leading to my darkroom I have strung clotheslines which will hold over 100 prints. That's also where my Jobo is. The maximum print I can make in the trays is 16x20 but I have made much larger ones using wallpaper troughs and rolling the paper. The size is almost unlimited that way. I just spent several weeks in my darkroom printing photos for an exhibit which will be in November at the College of Wooster's Lowry Art Gallery. I'm shipping them 55 (!) mounted photographs this week. If anybody is nearby and interested in going, I would love to know how the exhibit looks. I won't get a chance to go. Leically, Tina Tina Manley, ASMP <http://www.photogs.com/manley/index.html> <http://www.aperture-photo.com/site/reportage/manley/manleyframeset.html> <http://members.tripod.com/~Tina_Manley/>