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Darkroom Supplies Overview
Home » Photography » Darkroom Supplies » Darkroom Supplies OverviewPosted by Your Guide on October 3, 2006 9:10 PM
A darkroom is an area that is made dark to allow photographers to use light sensitive materials to develop photographs and film and can be handled without being exposed to light. It can be as large as a suite of rooms, or as small as a changing bag. Setting up a darkroom is like setting up a den, it can be as simple or as fancy as you want. You will probably spend a lot of time in the darkroom, so you should make it functional and comfortable and efficient.
Darkrooms were used in the late 19th and early to late 20th century for black and white photography. Using black and white film, amateur photographers could control every step of the photographic process and achieve results at home. Due to the relative complexity involved in processing color film and printing color photographs, and due to first the Polaroid technology and later digital photography, darkrooms are quickly decreasing in popularity among both the amateur and professional photographers.
You can ask anyone who's ever printed their own pictures in a real darkroom what they thought of their first experience and they'll say it was magic.
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