From: shannon stoney (sstoney@pdq.net)
Date: 09/07/02-07:24:58 AM Z
I just finished making an improvised darkroom in my garage. I hung
black plastic from 2x4s propped on the metal beams in the garage, and
I taped or stapled the plastic to the 2x4s and the metal beams. I put
2x4s on the floor too and stapled the bottom of the plastic to those.
I already had a sink and a vent hood with a fan attached; all I had
to do was make the area around it dark enough at night that I could
process 8x10 negatives. It worked! There was no fogging at all, and
I could work out there before it got completely dark outside, as it
turned out. The only remaining problem is that it is quite hot out
there still, but in a month or so it should be cooler.
I thought it would be interesting to learn how other people made
darkrooms for themselves at home or elsewhere. Of course we
alt-process people don't need as dark a room to make prints in, but
there is still the problem of finding a really dark place to process
those big negatives, unless you make digital negatives from smaller
negatives.
--shannon
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