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Darkroom film developing9/10/2023 ![]() If you really were an enthusiast, that was just part of the whole thing, followed by the film processing and the print enlarging, the intimate, very personal, even spiritual time spent in the darkroom. So the whole photographic experience was a lot more intellectual and complex, cameras were more basic, more mechanical, you had 36 frames tops, instead of 4000 on your card. ![]() You really needed to think twice before pressing the shutter, especially if you shot medium, large format, or, the best of all, in my mind and heart, instant sheet. Sometimes each shot was the best shot, because it was the only shot. Hours and hours spent printing contact sheets, and then going for that one shot with the magnifying glass. Today we deal with volume, as the longest process is the selection of one shot out of an entire card on the computer. It's an almost religious mix of feelings. The waiting, the process itself, the smell, the subdued light, or total darkness, and most of all the anticipation, all these create truly beautiful emotions. Once you get the film out and see the result it's like Christmas morning to a kid. The feeling I get when I develop a film is unique and only someone who has done this could understand. I also love the smell of fixer and whenever I get that pungent vinegarish pinch in my nose, I feel like I'm time-travelling back to my early days as a photographer, some twenty years ago, straight into the magic red room, the mysterious darkroom, a special place full of wonderful memories.
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