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![]() With the weather cooling down (even here in LA), it’s nice to sit at home and dig through the old photos scanned to the hard drive. Here’s a pic of my younger brother helping me in my first home darkroom, circa late-1974 (B&W Polaroid photo). No enlarger at this point, only contact prints. Then a pano of the same room a few years later. Finally a screenshot of a set of my very first 126 photos as contact prints, 1974-5. Please post some of your old darkroom facility photos. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Well done, Mike!
I wish I could find my earliest photos. Then I had a Kodak Brownie Box camera and my pictures were all contact prints. No enlarger just the bathroom light above and a timer! After that it was a fully equipped pro darkroom down to driers and presses. But that was my Father in Law's escape "man's cave", (in addition his 35' Chris Craft motor yacht). I have been spoilt and ruined by the digital darkroom! Too many pictures and too easy to post process in alternate ways! Asher
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Thanks Asher! Only those of us who paid the traditional darkroom dues can fully appreciate digital ;-) But a yacht, that's another story!
Speaking of Kodak Brownies, I had one from my grandfather and put sheets of photo paper in it to make negative exposures. I then contact printed the paper against another sheet of paper to make the positive. Here's one from 1978 or so, but for this example I scanned the original paper negative and inverted it in Photoshop. Less work, ha! ![]() |
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