Thursday, January 10, 2013

Enlargers

Yesterday was another day in the darkroom.  First of all I had this brilliant idea the night before to try out the Vivitar enlarger.  I have two:  the Beseler and Vivitar.  The Vivitar is used only for developing black and white prints.  I thought it was about time I tried it out and this way I would find out just how far off I might be in the developing of prints.  I was thinking there was going to be this MAJOR difference!  Alas, no difference, other than the diffused light was 'diffused' and so it took longer to develop a print.  I developed one that I had already printed out on the Beseler.  IT WAS EXACTLY THE SAME, and really not even any better.  So after messing around with that for a couple of hours, I continued working on the third roll from Dubrovnik on the Beseler.  Developed three more and called it a day.  I'm sharing my favorite of the three here.  Again, another restaurant front that looked very inviting - "Restaurant Aquarius".



I did check my FB paper and it's good.  No problems there.  I did change the actual development time down to 2 minutes after re-checking with the manufacturer's instructions on Dektol (2-3 minutes).  Made sure I was being more precise on my transferring of the paper from one tray to another, checked my consistency of agitation requirements, etc., etc.

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