Re: [Leica] Darkroom depression

[Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>]

As far as colour is concerned, the darkroom is certainly dead.   For black
and white, there is some life still, but only a little.

Dan C.

 At 05:13 PM 04-05-00 +1000, AlastairF@bhs.grampianshealth.org.au wrote:
>O me miserum,
>
>All this talk of the Darkroom being dead, just as my long awaited, dreamed
>of and planned studio/darkroom becomes a reality. I first started
>photography in the home darkroom of a professional photographer whose mother
>could not bear to see the room unused. Richard and I toiled away for hours,
>perfecting a very imperfect system of development, learned mainly from trial
>and error (like the day I washed our most precious film in hot water and
>watched the emulstion slide down the sink). When that closed/became a junk
>room again, I managed to convince my mother to share her laundry, and made
>quite a neat darkroom fold out cupboard arrangement. When I left the nest,
>(and mother changed the locks) I was confined mainly to crawling under the
>sheets and blankets to load film -- very uncomfortable in summer. On
>graduation, I managed to build a darkroom into the bathroom. It was a nice
>set up, but the steam from the shower was always a problem. Next house and a
>dedicated small darkroom -- dreams coming true, but the work load of post
>graduate study made sure it was never used, and I moved out the day I
>stopped study. Now firmly planted, I have had 7 years of digital darkroom
>misery, and finally the mighty plans are about to come to fruition. ATL
>Autolab 3, the mother of all water temperature control panels, a wet area
>huge sink, an exhaust system to suck the rooms air out and over 15 times per
>hour, and a beautiful enlarger bench, AND YOU ARE TELLING ME ITS ALL DEAD. O
>me miserum
>
>Cheers
>
>Alastair
>
>