Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have the nova slot processor and *love* it. They are very cool, take up little room and make clean up/prep much easier. On 6/6/07 4:59 AM, "Daniel Ridings" <dlr@dlridings.se> wrote: > Believe it or not, but it is becoming more difficult, not easier, to do > digital prints. Companies like Epson are changing their printers so that > you can't use 3rd party (piezo-, and carbon) inks. > > Just like cameras, printers have become a moving target and it is > difficult to keep abreast with what is happening (unless you can afford > one of the really good ones, the big ones ... they seem to be more stable). > > I am only interested in black and white, not color. Printing color > digitally is less of a problem, actually, hardly one at all. > > So I am thinking about keeping my darkroom set up after all. I have a > dedicated room for it (even though the boys have booked it for their > week-end poker nights now and then). > > One of the things I don't like is washing up all the trays when I am > finished and have been thinking about the Nova system with a box and > vertical slots with very little contact between the liquids and air. You > are supposed to be able to just put the cover on and the chemicals will > last longer without you having to pour them over to bottles after each > run (if you don't just throw them out). > > Is this a reasonable way of working for someone who would only go into > the darkroom once a week (possibly twice). > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . w a d e h e n i n g e r u s e r e x p e r i e n c e a d o b e s y s t e m s , i n c