Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I moved into my present house almost two years ago, and dedicated a room in the attic for use as a darkroom (it had originally been the Servants Quarters' when this house was built in 1897). I have never completed fixing it up as such, as I now scan my negatives and slides and, now that I am getting a bit familiar with this, I have no strong desire to go back to chemical work. I can load film into tanks in a changing bag and processing is no big thing. But I am unwilling to give up, quite yet, on the ability to produce chemical prints as they still are better in quality than are scans, at least with my current gear and at my current level of expertise. I suspect I will never finish making the putative darkroom completely light-tight and air-conditioned but, still, I cannot quite give up on it. I have a grand set of gear (a Leica V35 and a Beseler 23CX-II with Rodenstock APO enlarging lenses, all sorts of trays, tongs, timers, lights, &c &c) -- Hell, I not only have 16mm and 127 reels but I have not one but TWO print driers. And finishing the darkroom would be a matter of five or six hours or less. Dreams die hard. I spent a magnificent number of hours over forty years in a darkroom and I guess it is time to admit that I'll probably never enlarge another negative. But I'm not willing, yet, to come to terms with this reality. So, like Tina, I can and do process film but scanning is becoming just so damned EASY! Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!