Fotolab

No windows, tiles all around, a large sink, lots of storage space and a door that can be locked from the inside make the small room situated to the right of the entrance to WhateverLab the perfect place for our Fotolab/Chemielab.

If you are interested in developing your own film, in exchanging ideas with fellow photo nerds or just trying out stuff, join us at one of our irregularly regular meetups [de] or subscribe to our Fotolab mailing list. Most of us are amateurs btw., so there's no reason to be shy, even - or especially - if you are a bloody beginner! :)

For all soup lovers, there's also a (albeit very irregularly updated) Fotolab soup. If you're more of a watcher than a doer, just following it will be fine. If you'd like to contribute too, you're very welcome to request to join! (Plz ask Kay for help if you have any trouble joining.)

News

2011-12-25

a secret has been deployed. it is a secret to everybody.

2011-12-18

next Fotolab Meetup

Durst Enlarger

Darkroom equipment

• Kaiser VCP 3500 enlarger for 35mm film (with filters)
• Durst enlarger for 35mm and medium format film
• Developing tanks:
  • 1x large (fitting either 2x 35mm or 1x 120 film)
  • 1x small
• Film reels:
  • 3x adjustable (for 35mm & medium format film)
  • 1x for 35mm film only
  • 1x Jobo Duo-Set Reel #2502 (does not fit standard-sized tanks!)
• graduated cylinders for measuring chemicals
• funnels
• developing trays
• film clips
• darkroom lights
• print tongs
• storage bottles
• Polaroid timer
• a small box of plastic frames for 6x6 transparencies
• Kaiser slide cutter
• paper cutter
• focus finder (use by placing it in the light's center and look for grain)
• film squeegee
• thermometer
• clothes line where wet film & prints can be hung to dry

• for drying wet paper, one of the screen printing squeegees (Abziehrakeln) can be used

Chemicals & photo paper, consumables

We have chemicals and paper in the lab, but look carefully for ownership labelz.

Definitely free to use are:

• the huge pile of folia that TomK32 brought in to archive your precious 35mm and medium film
• all of the (super) old photo paper brought in by Marius (which exactly it is you'll be able to tell by its funky smell!)

Development Times

If you have developed film at the Fotolab, please be so kind and take a minute to enter your development times etc. into our development times table for future reference!

Cameras & accessories

• 3 Lomo cameras:
  • Colorsplash
  • Fisheye No. 2 -- currently borrowed by Emi
  • Actionsampler Flash
• 1 small, black camera (possibly pinhole?), origin unknown

• Lomo Colorsplash Flash Chakra Edition
• Metz Mecablitz 20 BC-6 flash -- currently borrowed by Mihi

• a bunch of pinhole cameras made out of black film canisters for 5 Jahre Metalab

Wishlist

• more/new photo paper in various sizes
• loupe
• press for working with baryta
• chemicals for colour film & photo development
• chemicals for print toning (-> selenium toning, sepia toning,.. bleach)
• chemicals and sunshine for Cyanotype [de]
• equipment for rotating agitation

How-To's & Tutorials

SW-Entwicklung How-To [de]

Photography shops in Vienna

• 1160 Wien: Fotofachversand (online-only orders also possible)
• 1070 Wien: Knips
• 1070 Wien: United Camera
• 1070 Wien: Blende7
• 1070 Wien: Impossible Project Space (instant film products only)
• 1080 Wien: Photo Börse

Links

Please refer to the Links subpage.

Old News

Old updates.

Users & prospective future users

tina, fain, Worm23, Fum, Dan, Mihi, Alex, kay, TomK32, Gnulux, jessy, emi, maria, bekassine, anton, Georg