[Leica] Re:Darkrooms and Hurricane Housings

[leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)]

Could I bring my Focomat 1C's instead of using the V35?

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@infionline.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 8:47 PM
Subject: [Leica] Darkrooms and Hurricane Housings


> Folks
>
> My wife and I spent a few minutes arguing last Friday over where the
> darkroom was to be in the new house, built in 1985 and a house so modern
> that  I have no approach.  I currently reside in a house built in 1896,
> which I regard as "late construction" and my office building was built in
> 1909, and I view this as "post-modern", so a vehicle from 1985 is outside
> my ken.  My wife was unhappy with my suggestion that I could use the Guest
> Bathroom as a temporary darkroom on the logical grounds that we have few
> guests, our Jem Kime have been our latest, and that some two years back.
> (As I have told Jeffery, when the NEXT hurrricane hits, he will always
have
> a place at Schloss Klein, though it might well be that he has to lever a
> Leica V-35 out of the way when biology intrudes in the still of the night.
> For that matter, as I do most of my processing after midnight, he might
> have to lever me aside, as well, but, so long as the chemical demands are
> met, I am a rather easy dude to deal with in a darkroom-of-dual-purpose.)
>
> I'll see you around Labor Day, Jeffrey.  The room will be set up and ready
> for you.  <he grins -- but the room will be there should, horrors!, you
> need it.  And if some other List Members are equally stranded, well, I
have
> a lot of sleeping bags and air matresses and the like.  We will be in
> Chester, Virginia, just south of Richmond, Virginia -- and to you Leica
> die-hards, the home of  Zeiss Sports Optics North America, but we shan't
> work much on that.>
>
> Any future hurricane victims can apply.  We will have ample space, if you
> can sleep around an odd enlarger or the like.
>
> Everyone has a bed for a day or two at Schloss Klein.  Within limits, and
> so long as you guys can share an evening over a pot of tea talking Leica
> and Leica photography.
>
> Marc