The Darkroom

Welcome to The Darkroom on kbin!...

Not sure if there's a lot of appetite for another social, but I've been using Grainery for a little while. It's nice to get another part of my work out from under the Meta thumb. Has anyone else used it?

Does anyone here have a good recommendation for a starter darkroom kit? I’ve got an old enlarger, can’t remember the model. I know it’s a long shot since this community is small.

I've played with pretty much any film I come across, and in terms of cost-benefit I've settled on Fomapan films. I like the grain structure, they are some of the cheapest BW film available and have great latitude if you like to mess with stand development. I shot this photo on a Pentax ME camera using Fomapan 100. Developed at...

So I don't shoot slide film enough to justify having the E6 chemistry on hand, but have seen this process come up a few times where you effectively use a common black and white developer to do a first development on the film, which is subsequently taken out of the developing tank, fogged intentionally using a light source, and...