>>> In my "prime" as a darkroom worker I could make 100 8x10 > prints, all >>> from different negatives, in 2 hours. > > I presume you using a processor? When I was doing the home lab > business, I could print 3 - 24 exposure rolls of film, all > negatives metered, and contrast eyeballed, in an hour. This was > 3x5 or 4x6 prints, but I was tray processing. > I was never that fast with bigger prints, I was able to produce > perhaps 20 8x10s per hour.
Nope, hand processing in trays. B&W prints, though. More recently my tendency is to take three or six sheets of newly developed film into the darkroom, rather casually make 1-8 workprints from each roll, process them in two or three batches, and not hurry particularly. I have a strange tendency to stay between 1-8 frames per roll. I hate not printing ANYTHING from a roll--because it usually means I haven't looked over the proof sheet carefully enough. But I also dislike printing too much from a single roll--it, in turn, usually means that I'm not being discriminating enough. Of course, that was in my last house. Here, I haven't finished building the darkroom yet--mainly because this time I'm building a deluxe one, just the way I've always wanted it. I'm taking my sweet time. And I have about 170 rolls of Tri-X awaiting development! What can I say, it's been a light shooting year. --Mike * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Mike Johnston's online articles about photography: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/m-johnston.htm http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/opinion/mikejohnston/index.htm http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/opinion/html/sharpness.htm - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
