On 2012-09-06 19:43, Jan Faul wrote:
My darkroom was in my parents’ furnace room and I developed film in the laundry tub. Later in life I learned how dumb that was and for my next basement built a black plastic room with filtered a/c and heat. Through my life I’ve built about 30 darkrooms and the one I have now is the first built by a carpenter. It’s ironic, as now I send my film out.
My first darkroom was in the closet of my bedroom. The second was a black plastic room in the basement of that house (the 2x4 framing is still there, my sister has that house now). Neither had water; I developed film down by the laundry tubs.
But I'm nowhere near 30. I helped build the Photo Coop darkroom I used in college, which was one of the better ones (though the Alumni Office darkroom next door was better, and I had that through most of college). But after that, I've only had one, and it was already in the house when I bought it. The house after that, I fell prey to planning for a super-perfect darkroom, which was too much trouble to actually build, and when we moved to the current house I had already started scanning and printing digitally (and digital advanced *much* faster than I expected at the time).
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