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Tags: 4x5, blueprint, Darkroom, DIY, printing tips, Shanghai 100B/S, sun-print paper

Sun-Print Paper

Posted on 17 October 2010 by Tomas Webb

You may remember the brief piece on Printing Out Paper. I mentioned that I’d bought some Sun-Print Paper. I tried it out this week – it needs bright sun for the quickest results, but the fading evening sun work just as [...]

Tags: Darkroom, expired, Features, film reviews

Working With Expired Film

Posted on 21 September 2010 by Tomas Webb

photo credit: gilesclement You may notice that I’ve filed this under Darkroom: Film Reviews. While this won’t be a film review per se, I will be providing some guidelines on what to look for as well as some general gui [...]

Tags: blackout, Darkroom, Equipment

Blackout Shades for the Darkroom

Posted on 19 September 2010 by Brian Auer

I recently mentioned that I was planning my new darkroom at the new house. I think it’s about time to start gathering the pieces — I’m getting anxious to print again. I’m going with a combination office/dar [...]

Tags: Darkroom, design, film, layout, office

Plans For My New Darkroom!

Posted on 12 August 2010 by Brian Auer

Hey there, strangers! I’ve been away from it all for a few weeks now, but I should be easing back into my online routine soon enough. Long story short: I bought a house and moved back home to north Idaho. If you want the lon [...]

Tags: artpunk, Cameron, Darkroom, iphone, kitchen, stop motion, The Plastic Lens, Video

Uncle Paul’s Kitchen Darkroom

Posted on 04 August 2010 by Tomas Webb

Granted, this is probably the last place you expected to see an iphone time lapse sequence, but the video below, courtesy of artpunk on flickr (who is otherwise known as Cameron, the author of The Plastic Lens), was too good not t [...]

Tags: Darkroom, enlarger, Equipment, film, introduction, photography, Video

Video Intro to the Optical Enlarger

Posted on 29 July 2010 by Brian Auer

Recently, I posted an article that introduced the basics of the optical enlarger. This video is a follow-up to that article, and I use my Beseler 67 as a visual prop for pointing out the different parts and how they work. The vide [...]

Tags: color, Darkroom, discussion

Thoughts on the Darkroom Walls

Posted on 16 July 2010 by Brian Auer

Over at The Online Photographer, Mike Johnston has been working on building a darkroom again after some time away from it. He’s been going through the various aspects of setting up a darkroom such as paint for walls and floo [...]

Tags: basics, Darkroom, enlarger, introduction

Introduction to Optical Enlargers

Posted on 14 July 2010 by Brian Auer

We haven’t done any articles about enlargers specifically, so we’ll kick things off with a very general overview. These monsters might look complicated at first sight, but they’re actually quite simple. Enlargers [...]

Tags: 35mm, autochrome, Darkroom, expired, feature, film, film review, Instant, Polachrome, Polaroid, rare, slide, slideshow

Polachrome – an experience based review

Posted on 12 July 2010 by Tomas Webb

Polachrome. Polachrome 35 mm. film can be shot and processed on the spot in a tiny processing machine that can be carried in a camera bag along with cameras. A speedy photographer can have 36 slides processed, mounted and ready to [...]

Tags: Analog, black and white film, chemicals, Darkroom, develop, developing, film, film developing, film photography, how to, photography, tutorial education

Black & White Film Developing Process

Posted on 07 June 2010 by Brian Auer

In the last video of this series, we talked about the chemicals needed for developing black and white film. Now that you’ve picked out your chemicals and loaded your film on the developing reel, it’s time to make the m [...]