Photo Lab

The purpose of this page is to gather information on and organize the development of an in-house photography lab

Prices Inventory

Equipment and chemicals

• Vefa foto Vejle Danish supplier of darkroom equipment and mainly Ilford chemicals.
• Macodirect German supplier of a broad range of chemicals and darkroom equipment. CHEAP

Development techniques

• Tips and tricks from a Danish amateur photographer. Lots of good notes on different mixtures and how they work.
• Book available in hackspace (can't remember the title)
• http://www.squarefrog.co.uk

Inspiration

• Another book that we have in the hackspace from Canon I think

Development equipment

• Peterson
• asdf
• adsf

Lab cameras

• Nikon F1 with the full Monty

Red Light for printing B/W photos

• One option is a red bulb, but as the photo below show it does not give much light
• Therefore I modded an old halogen worklight with energy saving bulbs
• Each bulb can be turned individually

Normal red bulb

Modded halogen worklight

Uplight

• Get hold of chemical proof sink and table - DONE!
• Transform the big toilet to a photo lab with wet and dry table (thats two)
• Decide on and buy chemicals - DONE, oveview will be posted later
• Buy photo paper in different shapes and sizes - DONE, however only one size currently approx half that of A4
• Fix a negative scanner ( or make a setup with a DSLR )