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05/19/2004 02:09:16 PM · #1 |
The habit that prevented me from making the "habits" deadline. |
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05/19/2004 02:10:54 PM · #2 |
It's one of the things I will never give up. no matter how much digital is around. I LOVE being in the darkroom.
Sandi
Message edited by author 2004-05-19 14:11:07. |
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05/19/2004 02:22:47 PM · #3 |
| I have developed black & white film, and I enlarged photos too. I would set up a make-shift darkroom in my parent's bathroom closet which was close to a source of water. I loved it! Sometimes I can close my eyes and I feel like I can almost smell that once familar---very distinct odor of developing chemicals!! |
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05/19/2004 03:01:34 PM · #4 |
Here's one of my best "darkroom" stories: When I was in Alaska, in the military, I encountered a huge blowout sale on Polaroid film packs at the Post Exchange. I didn't even own a Poloroid camera, but I bought their entire stock of film packs anyway. I used them in the darkroom to make color prints from slides. I put the slide in the enlarger, and used a whiteboard in an empty filmpack to focus the image. Then, under the redlight, I swapped a full filmpack for the empty one, exposed the image and removed the exposed "print" from the filmpack. Then I squeegee'd the print with a roller, and let it develop just as any poloroid picture would. Worked like a charm.
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05/19/2004 03:20:08 PM · #5 |
| Self-developing, positive-working print paper ... superb idea! How well do Polaroid prints last? |
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05/19/2004 04:00:04 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Self-developing, positive-working print paper ... superb idea! How well do Polaroid prints last? |
Poloroid prints last much longer now than they did when I used this technique back in the mid 1960's. The Poloroid prints from that era have yellowed quite a bit, but the original slides are still in very good shape. I'm looking to make my next major purchase the Nikon Coolscan so that I can convert them to digital. That should keep me busy for quite a while.
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05/19/2004 05:48:51 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Self-developing, positive-working print paper ... superb idea! How well do Polaroid prints last? |
And a camera that can reverse the digitally captured images through its own lens and expose the paper. :)
Impossible (the CCD/CMOS only registers voltages and for only one of the base RGB colors), but would be fun.
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