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Building your own photo development darkroom.

Amber Light Development tray

 

Once they have a room it is a matter of laying it out to suit your space

 

Creating a darkroom  needs two table tops and a room where the light has been blocked out.

A dry table for enlarger paper easel and a table for your 3 developing, rinse and fixer (Hypo) trays

A plug point for the safety light and enlarger.

 

The blog after this step is to talk about developing your film, exposing the images onto the photographic paper and developing them.

 

Equipment need to create a darkroom.

  1. A room that can be made light tight, “darkroom”

 

Hardware

  1. 3 flat shallow trays forprint developing
  1. An amber safety light
  2. Running tap water
  3. Developing tank and spools for film developing
  4. A timer clock
  5. A printing easil “a flat board or base that holds the paper.

 

  1. A film enlarger (projector)

An enlarger is a special kind of projector used to create your photographic prints

Materials

Print developer

Photographic film developer solution

Photographic film fixer solution

 

 

Film developer

Photographic paper developer solution

Photographic paper fixer solution

 

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