The darkroom was more fun than the actual picture taking. Similar to using a chisel and plane instead of a router.
Harbor Freight (arrogance)
Feb 14, 2022
Last reply: 4 years ago
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Still have an enlarger, contact printer, trays and a pack of real photo paper B&W. The chemical are long gone but still available.
Printing for a newspaper is "different". The edges of prints can't be
*black* or *white*. The edges have to be some shade of gray or the picture doesn't print right or there are no edges. It's done by using a paddle or a piece of cardboard waved in front of the paper to change the effective exposure time of parts of the print. The same is done for objects in the print that wash out. Black people are *really* difficult to photograph and make decent prints.I threw all of mine away recently. If it hasn't been used in a decade (or five) it's not needed and just taking space. I'm getting more ruthless in the "if it hasn't been used in ___ out it goes".
I also have an old enlarger, which still has B&W negatives in it from the 1950's; girls wearing old hoop skirts. I picked it up at a yard-sale, and it's sitting in my booth at the antique mall with a price tag on it, reduced a couple of times now to $10. There doesn't seem to be any demand for it, as I've learned.
There was definitely a pecking order where I worked... the dealership is on it's third owner since those days as the original founding owners retired and sold out. I have no idea what their processes are now, some 4 decades later.
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