How often are you using darkroom?

[newspaperguy]

I needed a - Not any more - category.

I soup in the bathroom and scan my negs.

Enlarger and trays rest quietly in boxes.

R.I.P.

 

[clayne]

I needed a - Not any more - category.

I soup in the bathroom and scan my negs.

Enlarger and trays rest quietly in boxes.

R.I.P.

That's too bad. So if we came over we'd basically be looking over your old prints then, right?

 

[Fuchs]

Im just using the darkroom to load film to develop. Havent touched the Focomat V35 in the last two years (maybe three).

 

[atlcruiser]

Building one right now. I actually spent about 2 hours at Lowes tonight trying to figure out how best to plumb the sink!

 

[clayne]

Building one right now. I actually spent about 2 hours at Lowes tonight trying to figure out how best to plumb the sink!

1/2" copper, copper tees to 1/2 threaded connectors (copper), stainless steel flex from the faucet into that. ABS for the drain.

If you don't know how to solder, learn. It's not difficult and copper is reliable and easy to work with.

 

[taylan]

when i look at the poll, everyday option has no vote 🙂. i think there isn't a dedicated darkroom technician in this poll. In fact, this business seems to be dying. In 2005 i was working as an technician and i could work everyday in darkroom. i am missing those days.

 

[ZorkiKat]

The darkroom I'm using was rebuilt in January this year. It can do BW and Colour film processing, as well as printing in BW and colour. It's really the communal darkroom of the local rangefinder and film group here.

 

[millus1974]

I use my dark (bath)room everyday...maybe the reason is that i don't have a scanner, so all the time i'm saving from photoshop and post processing, i can use it in my dark room, fighting with multigrade papers, filters, chemical and experiments on my negative...

 

[KenR]

No option for "not often enough". At present I'm using the darkroom every other month or even every third month. 🙁

 

[bigeye]

Ritually, Sunday afternoons for 3 seasons of the year. (Summer, Sundays are a better 'taking' time.) Most relaxed time of the week and it's an absolute luxury to concentrate on my own thing for a couple hours.

- Charlie

 

[ruby.monkey]

Never have, probably never will.

 

[MISH]

although i have the best darkroom of my life this poll makes me realize that I am not in it near enough....but day off work today and the wife is not home, I better get in there and see what I can do

 

[steelydam]

Update: My small "box" darkroom as I call it has been done for a few months and I am now in there 2x per week and loving it. My wife trains for marathons the first 1/2 of the day Saturdays so I pull kid duty and after she gets back & unwinds a bit, I get in there usually around 1400 and go untill 2200 or so. She knows how much I dig it & also happens to like what I print so now I also have another dedicated darkroom sesh each Weds night. Life is good!

 

[ibcrewin]

I'm shooting about 2 rolls a week. So I try to process them on Tuesday night, then contact sheets on Thursday. Printing when I can on the weekends. But really it's fairly unpredictable. I have two kids and a dog and someone always needs something. I'm also printing really late at night, once everyone is asleep. Friday nights are usually good because I don't have to wake up early the next day.

 

[jaredangle]

Probably about 3-4 times a week on average. Printing black and white enlargements once a week in my college darkroom, and developing film in my home darkroom 2-3 times a week (albeit mostly to get through my backlog of shot film from before I set up my darkroom at home.)

Hopefully I can purchase an enlarger soon to start printing at home. My bathroom is too big to add trays and a table to though, so I may have to seal off the entire spare bedroom it is attached to and start a full blown photo lab. Choices, choices.