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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Darkroom Neophyte wants to know more...
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 09:19:23 EST
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>  There is a matter of selecting an enlarger.  Can anyone suggest a
>  nice one to get started with ... and [which] will have a color
>  head for doing color work (after practicing with b&w, as was
>  suggested by most responses).

Go ahead and get the color head, don't buy one with a condenser head that
you can change for a dichroic head later (which is what my Saunders enlarger
does, though I don't have the condenser head).  See Ansel Adams ``The
Negative'' for a discussion of this.  According to Adams (and I agree), the
diffusion type head (which is what the dichroic head is) gives a truer
rendition of the various levels of grey, and generally a better-looking
print.  Also, since you are starting out with B&W, you can use the dichroic
head to migrate into color work by printing B&W negatives in various creative
ways (see Kodak's _Creative_Darkroom_Techniques_ for examples) that don't
require all the precision of the color printing, first.

>  I am living in a small apartment right now, and probably will for
>  a few years.  I'd be very interested in hearing from people who
>  do darkroom work in similarly horrible circumstances.

That's what I do.  I put black foam tape around the bathroom door, put
towels under the door, and the trays in the bathtub, and the enlarger on
one side of the sink.  It's crowded, but it works well.  (Oh... and I
plugged the safelight into a socket inside the ventilating fan.  That's
a problem with darkroom work in the bathroom... not enough outlets.)
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