After researching your dark room idea and talking to a friend who used to
do
photography I think I will give the dark room a shot. I guess I thought it
was much more complicated than it is. Also I think I will enjoy the
process
and the photos more having learned something new and created them myself.
Report will follow after my attempts in a week or two.
Thanks again Mark
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>>>>I have found many 100 year old negatives of my home town and would
like
>>>>to develope the photos. Iam told they are "photographer negatives" and
>>>>they are very large ( about 8x10 ). Is there a scanner I could
purchase
>>>>to enable me to print out the photos?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Mark
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why not just take them into the darkroom and contact print them? Many
>>> exxcellent photograph have been made without the aid of a computer or
>>> scanner. Darkroom technology is mature, alive, and doing pretty well.
>> Are you serious? Darkroom technology is expensive, time consuming, uses
>> up a lot of resources, requires a darkroom, special lighting and
>> equipment and is dying out fast.
>>
>> Almost any flatbed scanner that also provides software that enables
>> reversing the image would work. It would produce dry, finished images
in
>> minutes without a darkroom or the use of water.
>>
> Wrong, pretty much all around.
> Equipment for contact printing consists of a piece of glass from the
local
> hardware store, two or three tray-like containers from the housewares
> section of WalMart. The time required for each print may be 3-5 minutes,
> with a half hour when all the negs have been printed for washing and
> drying. As for resources, the two chemicals required neutralize each
other
> when they are dumped down the drain and the water required is about the
> same as a family size load of laundry for a couple dozen 8x10's. A
> darkroom? No, a room that can be darkened, nearly. Special lighting
could
> be a red Christmas bulb or no light at all (I usually work in a Dark
> darkroom).
> The scanned negatives will not have the gradual subtle tonality of an
> optical (or contact) print. Depending on how you print them, they will
not
> have the life of a properly processed B&W print, rated at 200+ years.
>
> Darkroom tachnology is not expensive, not time consumung, does not use
up
> a lot of resource, and last but not least, is not dying out fast! Try it
> out before you put it down.
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