Here's the draft of a piece about the enlarger. I'm open to suggestions on how to proceed. I'll post my contact information if allowed. I don't know the ropes here, so will someone say how I can get this information to those interested? And make your own prints precisely the way you want them, as in a traditional film/enlarger darkroom. The best of both worlds: shoot digital, with all of its convenience and versatility, but print silver, with its incomparable look and lifespan-and at about one-dollar per 8x10, less expensively than the cheapest fade-prone machine print.
The enlarger can be put together by anyone half-way handy for between $600 and $3,000. I'd like to share the how-to of it with anyone interested, the hope being that the traditional home darkroom will become common again, real, RC or fiber prints common again. I've put together an enlarger that makes traditional, real, silver-gelatin prints, 3-tray wet-darkroom prints, from digital images, results indistinguishable from film/darkroom prints.Īs with a traditional film/enlarger, any brand paper can be used, RC or fiber-based prints can be any shape or size, borders any shape or size.
