Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alan-- Thanks for the reminder. Sounds like the newspaper darkroom I lived in. Don't miss it one bit. My wife says I smell a lot better, too. Boy that odor after a Friday night football shift, getting home at 3 am after 12-20 rolls of push processing and printing. Give the good NEW days;^) ric On Apr 5, 2007, at 6:23 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote: > On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote: > >> After many years in the darkroom, I developed allergies to most of >> the chemicals. I'm truly glad to be out of that dark, smelly >> atmosphere. I get a headache just thinking about it! >> >> Tina > ...................................................................... > .......... > > I forgot about that problem, and didn't mean to be insensitive. > I've been > lucky that B&W chemicals don't bother me. > > When I first got serious in photography, I worked on my college > paper. > The darkroom was in the basement next to an alley with NW > exposure. We had > a ventilation fan over the sink covered in black paper, but in the > winter a > breeze blew through it enough that sometimes when I came in for a > printing > session I had to push the first prints through a thin layer of ice > as I > processed them (and no RC then). As I made more prints, the chemicals > would warm up from my fingers being in the solutions. The enlarger > was > broken too, so we had to use a "C clamp" to hold the negative stage > up, > parallel to the easel, for every different picture. Looking back, > I think > this rudimentary darkroom was good training in getting the most from > limited resources. > > Love the smell of a fresh 100' roll of Tri-X; sweet compared to the > acrid > aroma of Agfa or Ilford films. > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak > Senior Photographer > Photo Services > Univ. of Wis.- Milwaukee > Information & Media Technologies > amr3@uwm.edu > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information