Category: Darkroom
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Obscure Black and White Film – The Lazy Developer’s Guide
I am a total slacker. I’ve spent about $500 on a Jobo and the associated hardware, and do I use it for developing expensive and difficult processes like ECN-II? Nope. I use it so I can be lazy when developing monochrome film. This practice has a background in my film preferences – I tend to…
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Emily’s Jobo Shopping Guide
Following a slight accident involving the “buy it now” button, my understanding of Jobo tanks has expanded significantly…
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Washing Film
I work in a film lab these days. It’s not a professional lab, by any means – but we pride ourselves on being better than the competition in drugstores. A really great part about it though, is interactions with customers. Some of the most interesting have been with people who’ve been long-time film shooters over…
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The Jobo CPA, a ‘Users’ Manual of Operation
I recently obtained this rather excellent piece of 1970’s-80’s darkroom machinery. It’s a mains powered automatic processor for film and paper. It’s particular benefit is for color processes, RA4, C-41 (CN-16), E-6 and ECN-II. It can also be used with some black and white chemistry to make results more reproducible, as well as more cost-effective.…