[Darkroom] Color Printing
Kelly
hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 00:15:54 UTC 2009
I started making an agenda of pending items and I started thinking
about color printing again. Audrey and I have briefly discussed this,
but I wanted to dump something on the list so that we have a thread in
the archive. This isn't something we can do anything about yet, but I
wanted to bookmark it, conceptually.
I think it's generally understood that when we get the darkroom dark
and open up shop for the first time, it will be doing BW development
and printing. I think it's also understood that color development is
never happening. However, I think we all want color printing someday.
2 approaches:
A machine. Those of you who have done color printing at Rayko have
seen this large, sexy marvel. I want one. You carry exposed paper to
it, in total darkness, and four minutes later it spits out a dry, flat
print. Is this even feasible to have in our space? We would need a
hole in a wall somewhere for the fancy kind, but I presume there are
smaller ones? I suspect that our little darkroom won't accommodate
this either way. This is way out in the future for us, budget-wise,
anyway. But a girl can dream. And the awesome thing about
noisebridge is that people are constantly wanting to donate things to
it.
Baths. This is a little more of a hassle than BW, but doable. See
description here: http://photo.net/learn/darkroom/color-darkroom
One thing we're going to run into is that BW and color can't really be
done in the same room at the same time. This is a concern to sort out
when we actually have an active darkroom, but I put both options
forward now so that we can start fantasizing, running subconscious
problem solving routines, and just in case we have any good donation
opportunities.
-Kelly
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