Ch for questions: Does anyone still uses a darkroom to develop and print negativ

Question: Ch for questions: Does anyone still uses a darkroom to develop and print negatives!?
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Yup, I sure do!. I develop ALL my own black and white film and pictures!. In fact, I just made a set of prints last night in the darkroom in my garage!. From a Zeiss Ikon Nettar camera and Kodak Plus-X film!.

I have a collection of vintage 35mm and 120 size film cameras!. For the past 4 months, 90 percent of the pictures I've taken are with FILM!. I have an 8 megapixel digital camera, but it has sat on a shelf in my bedroom collecting dust!. For me, taking pictures with a completely manual film camera really is a lot more fun!. It's more challenging and rewarding!. also, my film cameras can get a LOT more detail and completely blow away my digital camera!. I've been able to magnify some of the pictures I've taken with 120 film and read a street sign that was over two city blocks away!.!.!.my digital camera can't come anywhere near that!.

I've got a notebook full of my 120 and 35mm negatives and 2 notebooks completely full of pictures I've developed!.!.!.real silver prints from an enlarger!.

And I'm not some old guy longing for the past either!. I just turned 30 recently!. Up until about a year ago, I used mostly point and shoot digital cameras!. The only film cameras I used when I was a kid was just cheap point and shoot cameras and disposable cameras!. I started collecting vintage cameras just because I had a fascination with old mechanical cameras!.!.!.then I wanted to actually learn how to use them!. I learned how to develop my own B&W film in March, and then I set up a darkroom in the garage!. Ever since then, I've had so much fun with it that I hardly ever use my digital camera!. This really does feel more like REAL photography!. Film is so much more creative and rewarding!.

I've been around computers my whole life!.!.!.but I don't do Photoshop!. So it's not just old people who are nostalgic!. I'm on a photography website and there are a LOT of people who develop film and prints at home!. It's more popular than you think!. In fact, I know of a 17 year old kid that shoots in large format film!. There really is just something special about film!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

At this time, over 90% of the black and white prints hanging is galleries is printed by the artist in a darkroom!. The artist composes the image using any camera from a 35 mm camera through 8x10 view camera!. They then develop the film to their standards (many photo artists have special modifications they have made to existing chemistry or even make their own) and then make large prints, again to their satisfaction and finally after processing their prints using archival processing practices and then mount them on acid free matte board!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes!. I still process and print with chemicals!. It's not that I am afraid of digital, I am professional digital retoucher!. I just prefer the tonal range and look of a silver based print!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes, I do, as well as a couple friends of mine!. It's a very fun, hands-on process!Www@QuestionHome@Com

yup! i use it for a photo class!.Www@QuestionHome@Com