Laura Watts |
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Color darkroom
Can a person set a color darkroom up at home? I'm building a B&W now. I would like to set up for color if I could.
May 10, 2005
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Christopher A. Vedros |
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I know it can be done, but from what I understand, color is tougher to do than B&W. I know it will make a difference in the enlarger that you need. And I'm pretty sure you can't use a safelight when you are printing in color. Greg LaGrange has answered a few darkroom questions lately with a checklist of equipment & supplies, but I don't recall if those included what you would need for color.
May 10, 2005
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Tom Walker |
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Yes, you can do color at home, it is significantly more difficult than B+W, and more expensive. While there is a safelight made for processing color, it is so dim as to be useless, so might as well do it in the dark, color chemicals only have a shelf life of weeks before going bad after they are mixed as opposed to months for the shelf life of B+W chemicals. I still do an occasional color enlargement just for the fun but usually it's so much easier to send it out.
May 12, 2005
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Collette Photography |
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Tom is correct, I have my darkroom set up for both, but it is much more expensive. you can use a b&w enlarger you just need a color head that ataches to the top, turning it into a color enlarger, you will also need color developing drums unless you dont mind stand in the pitch black for long periods of time.
May 31, 2005
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Andrew Laverghetta |
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I know this is a somewhat old thread and all but I was just wondering. I got a black and white condenser enlarger. The Beseler Cadet II. It says online and in the manual that it can print color with color printing filters. Know anything about this? Will this probably just give one setting for color to be on or whatever? Thanks if you can help.
December 28, 2005
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