todd frederick Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 I am posting a photo of my simple digital darkroom. The angel photo on the tower is from a Leica negative printed digitally. I am phrasing this question with a purpose: We can either have a chemical darkroom or a digital darkroom, or both, and that's OK. I have used a chemical darkroom for over 40 years, and still occasionally use such for specific purposes. At this time I use a combination: Film camera negs on CD with digital printing. I print digitally. I use a true darkroom for 4x5 film processings but will make both contact prints or digital enlargements from a 4x5. So, you see, it is neither digital nor film. Both can work together. Since this is the Leica Photography Forum, I have and use a Leica Ic with a Voigt 25mm lens, from which I have a CD made and print from that. We CAN have the best of both worlds! It is not "either or' but a "working together" of film and digital. This photo is my truly mix and match digital darkroom...I'd like to see where you work. Blessings.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorge Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 My DDR. On the left, Epson 2200. Center; HP printer for text, ViewSonic E90, Wacom Graphire. Right; Assembled CPU with 1.5Gb RAM, 2x80GB SATA disks, Minolta 5400, Epson 2450.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorge Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 PS, tomorrow I'll post some shots of my *real* darkroom. BTW, now I'm mixing the output of both, a few hours ago I managed to make my first good digital negative to print by contact on Ilford MG-IV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david dutchison Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Todd, I'm wondering if you might repost this question in a week to give those of us with only chemical darkrooms (and no digital cameras) some time to get a shot together (assuming there's enough intrest). For my part, I often scan proofs and play with them in GIMP (the Linux equivalent of Photoshop) before heading into the darkrooom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean_. Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Folks, a small hint: you're neglecting the most important part of your setup, the monitor. Especially for sophisticated graphic work a good monitor makes a worlds difference, just like the viewfinder of your favourite camera! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F. Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Todd: I'm with you. I, too, develop all my digital shots in Nutir-grain Yogurt, 1:1. I'm just being a SA, and that doesn't stand for Super-Angulon. ASAP, I'll post pictures of my new darkroom, now in the final stages of construction. Nice thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Let's see, there's the home made fiberglassed plywood 2x7 foot sink that I made in 1968 when I set up the darkroom, and a counter top big enough for 3 enlargers because at one point I also had a 4x5 Omega D2V-XL. Right now I have a B22-XL I bought new in '65 and a 1950's vintage Kodak Precision that handles up to 6.5x9 cm sheet film. I bought that used about 1970 with an assortment of carriers including 828, 4x6.5cm on 127, and some other obsolete sizes. The 6.5x9 cm sheet film carrier is about perfect for my Brooks Plaubel Veriwide negs. Also a tripod adapter for the head, for horizontal projection, and a neat gizmo with tri-color seperation filters that fits below the lens. I only have the condenser unit for the 105mm lens but they were also made for 75mm and 50mm lenses. I still use the DuPont Varilour filter set from the 60's for contrast control. I have a home built copy of a Senrac film dryer - $100 was a lot of money 35 years ago! Same for the safe lights - homemade boxes holding 10x12 Kodak OC filters. One wall is shelves with boxes of negs and contacts, and tanks and reels. Everything is varnished wood and natural coral rock. Two Omega Mid-Jet 11x14 print washers are in the sink. Tray storage and chemical bottles are below. I bought most of the stuff used at good prices, and almost nothing since picking up an 80/5.6 Schneider Componon in the mid 1980's. Got a good price on that because the Componon-S had just been introduced. The whole concept of "saving money" with digital by not buying film totally escapes me! My darkroom and most of my Leica shooting equipment was bought, paid for, and written off decades ago. My younger (and not so young) digital crazed friends spend more money every year "upgrading" cameras and lenses than I spent in total, even factoring inflation. Someplace in those files is a photo of a much younger me in my darkroom, long curly hair (no grey!) and a leather vest with no shirt, and a silly ass grin on my face. I guess I gotta go look for it now...make a print, scan it, post it. Wish me luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_reither1 Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 http://community.webshots.com/album/67237403ZxxGda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis1 Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Todd, yogurt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sliu Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 "Darkroom" 1.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sliu Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 "Darkroom" 2.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sliu Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 "Darkroom" 3.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 My makeshift desktop "Darkroom" located in a corner of my studio. It has to be there so I can shoot straight to the computer "complex" and process work for client review as we go. I will be redoing the entire studio this spring, so I haven't bothered getting everything all spiffy. For those interested in such stuff, Mac G5, Dual Processor with 4 gigs of RAM (soon to be 8 Gigs) and 180 Gig scratch disk for P/S; 23" Mac Cinema & 19" Lacie Blue tandem monitors (soon to both be 23" Mac Cinema displays). 40 gig i-Pod; 200 gig Western Digital Hard Drive, three 20 gig Firelite Hard Drives; Harmon/Kardon sound system; Kodak 8500, 8X12 Dye-Sub printer, Epson 2200 Ink-Jet printer (soon to be a Epson 4000); Polaroid SprintScan 120 film scanner; Epson 1640SU flatbed (soon to be a 4870). Toys R Us. ; -)<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Marc, nice ride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_lazzarini Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Mark,<br> Is that one of those Belkin/iPod mini readers sitting on your G5?<br> And, if so... is it worth it?<br> Thanks in advance.<p> BTW, attempted to get to your web site <u>www.fotografz.com</u>, and end up getting a "Not Found". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Hi Bob, you freaked me out at first... but my site loaded immediately, so I don't know what to tell you. I'm not sure about the Belkin CF card reader yet. I've only tried it once using the i-Pod on battery power and it worked fine, but slooooowly. Once a card is loaded it's easy to retrieve from it quickly. It just mounts on the desktop like any other Hard Drive. It's really small for holding 40 Gigs of data. BTW, here is my poor real "Dark, Darkroom". It has become a dumping ground for all sorts of studio gear. ;-(<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis1 Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Marc, is your darkroom distorted or the lens that took it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Marc, what time do you and the Ms. go out to dinner on Friday night? :=) www.citysnaps.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_.1 Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Marc that is one sweet looking photo on the monitor, no wonder you get paid the big bucks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Brad, we feed our twin Bull Mastiffs Bruno & Uno around 8 PM, come on by anytime before then. Travis, I looked at both the room and the lens and neither are distorted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_lazzarini Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Mark,<br> Sorry to have given you a fright, it was totally unintentional.<br> When I click on the link to your site from your page on photo.net,<br> I receive this url: <u>http://www.photo.net/shared/www.fotografz.com</u>, which led me to the "Not Found" page.<br> Just using the url: <u>www.fotografz.com</u> brings me to your site very nicely.<br> BTW... excellent site, and excellent use of Flash.<br> Thanks for the answer.<br> Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karim Ghantous Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 Marc, that pic on the Apple display of the wedding dress is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. C. S. Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Not the neatest, but it works for me. Shown with my Durst 606 turned and my Minox enlarger set up. The enlarger in the back with a black cover is a Kindermann 6X9 enlarger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Here are pictures of my scanning set up as it was I use an older Macintosh Pro and a Nikon CoolScan 9000 Then a picture of a newer Mac with Photoshop for the actual editing of the scans although I have upgraded the computer and HDs since the picture was taken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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