From: Gordon J. Holtslander (holtsg@duke.usask.ca)
Date: 09/07/02-09:26:54 PM Z
Can't remember if I've mentioned this here, or on the pinhole list.
I did a darkroom experiment on my vacation this summer. We went to stay
with friends in Canmore AB - In the Rockies - a nice contast to "flat as a
pancake Saskatoon" :)
We've stayed with them before so I knew they had a laundry room without
windows and a sink.
I've been working mostly with large pinhole cameras (with litho film as
negatives) and contact printing to cyanotypes. I thought its such a
simple process I should be able to pack everything I need into a small box
and bring my darkroom with me.
I packed some trays, safelight dry chemicals,bottles, cameras and film -
and some ready-made cyanotype paper.
It worked like a charm - I was able to load and process the film in the
laundry room (I had to put a towel at the base of the door to make it
dark) and simply contact print the negatives out in the sun - even
imporvised my contact printing frame (Car was so packed I didn't want to
bring a piece of glass)
My Dad wanted to go some pinhole camera stuff on his own. We tried making
his basement light tight by blocking off windows etc, etc, to no success -
He realized their garage has no windows, Once the garage door is
closed its really dark - he used it last summer. Although now he
is thinking of drilling a small hole in the garage and turning it into a
gigantic pinhole camera :)
Gord
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holtsg@duke.usask.ca 112 Science Place
http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan
Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Fax (306) 966-4461 Canada S7N 5E2
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