From the course: Analog Photography: Shooting & Processing Black-and-White Film

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Setting up the chemistry in the big darkroom

Setting up the chemistry in the big darkroom

From the course: Analog Photography: Shooting & Processing Black-and-White Film

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Setting up the chemistry in the big darkroom

We're here in the darkroom facility of the Oklahoma Arts Institute in the scenic Quartz Mountains of Oklahoma. What you see here is an amazing teaching darkroom. This is far more sophisticated and complicated than anything you'd ever want to set up at home. We're equipped with 18 matching enlarging stations. Featuring these 23CIII Beseler enlargers. Capable of handling film up to a format of 6x9 centimeters. You can see down the row, they are in individual bays to protect light spill from going to one, from one station to the next. And the sink we're going to be working in is a massive T-shaped sink that is a single unit of welded polypropylene. It's chemically inert. It doesn't interact with any of the processing chemicals. It's got a wonderful downdraft ventilation system that pulls the air through the room over the sink and down. So it is constantly pulling away the odors, and so on from the chemical process, which is a really wonderful feature. Needless to say, if you start at…

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