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 (and thanks to Bina & her mad restoration skillz, it is actually useable again as of 01/11!).

Equipment for film & photo processing

• Durst B30 b/w enlarger for 35mm film
  • Rodenstock ROGONAR S 2,8/50mm
  • multigrade filter
• UPCOMING: Durst enlarger for 35mm and medium format film
• 2 developing tanks for two 35mm film reels each or 1 120 film
• 1 developing tank for one 35mm reel
• 3 adjustable reels (for 35mm & medium format film)
• 1 reel for 35mm film only
• graduated cylinders for measuring chemicals
• funnels
• developing trays
• film clips
• print tongs
• storage bottles
• Polaroid timer
• a small box of plastic frames for 6x6 transparencies
• Kaiser slide cutter

(+ ...)

WANTED:

• thermometer(s) for colour film & photo development
• something like a "clothes line" where wet film can be hung to dry
• a squeegee to dry prints
• proper timer

Chemicals

(todo)

WANTED:

• chemicals for print toning (-> selenium toning, sepia toning,.. bleach)

Photo paper

(todo, but at least got labelled today, 2011-02-07)

WANTED:

• any & every paper you can find!

Cameras & equipment

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

• Lomo Colorsplash Flash Chakra Edition
• Metz Mecablitz 20 BC-6 flash -- War leider kaputt, liegt noch bei mir Zuhause fuer diagnose... --Mihi 11:09, 12. Jan. 2011 (CET)

• empty black film canisters for making pinhole cameras (Workshop?!)

Wishlist

• more/new photo paper in various sizes
• loupe
• press for working with baryta
• scissors
• papercutter

Workshops

(needs updating)

Kleine Workshops finden mit jedem OpenLab statt oder nach Vereinbarung. Einfach da sein und nach einem von diesen fragen: TomK32, Mihi

Links

(possibly move to separate page)

• Shift-Tilt Lens Photography
• Shift-Tilt Linsen: Lensbaby
• Fake Shift-Tilt Photography
• Aus Scanner wird Kamera
• Makros mit Pringlesdose
• Everything you ever wanted to know about darkrooms
• Pinhole Day 30.4.
• Haferflocken Lochkameras
• Entwickler aus Haushaltsmaterialien
• Wie man mit Fotochemikalien umgeht
• Digitaltruth Devchart, welcher entwickler mit welchem Film wie Lang?
• del.icio.us bookmarks tagged fotolab+metalab

Interessenten

tina, fain, Worm23, Fum, Dan, Mihi, Alex, kay, TomK32, Gnulux, jessy