 what's up guys I committed myself to making a video a day so today I'm gonna go ahead and show you a tour of my darkroom I'm actually recording this audio at home because I couldn't make the noise at this time or open locks because you know I was holding a camera some cameras a whole bunch of film more film better film I would say so here we have loops we have compressed air for dusting off prints because that's a big problem with black and white photography is that you're gonna get a lot of dust on your negatives and it's going to show up in your print so you always want to keep it clean okay over here we have our negative dryer pretty straightforward it just dries your negatives down here we have reels and tanks for processing here's my first light table I'm gonna go ahead and show you guys if you're new to this what this is for you're gonna go ahead and just throw your negatives on it so you can view them it's a good way to check for dust if you don't make a contact sheet which is basically a print of all your negatives together like me I don't make contact sheets typically because I scan but that's a good way to do it just take a look there this is funny this is for making copy so basically pre-digital you would have even lights set up and then in the middle there you would set up a camera to make copies of images with another camera hilarious another teacher I work with excitedly telling me if I ever want to make copies we have this I'm like yeah I know no dude I'm gonna scan it over there we had a print dryer and this is for mounting prints got a stack of prints here because I never take my work home drying racks not the most ideal way to draw your prints I would say to be honest I prefer to hang and then use a dryer if I have one come where it works spaces all right so now I'm inside the dark room this is without any lights let me go ahead and flip these on so this is gonna be in reverse order as far as the process goes because right here we have water the washer actually which is the last step you're gonna use a bunch of chemicals diaphine my favorite film developer okay what the hell is this yeah that's me saying what the hell is this because I'm not familiar with what chemistry this is and I'm not sure that is okay so we have developer develops a print stop anyway and now I'm talking to myself more light on so we have a few different enlargers I'm not gonna get into how the enlarger works right now just cleaning up a bit this is really exciting I know I know gonna edit that out that's for sure all right under here I have paper that's maybe 50 years old down here slowly I've been testing each pack out and I try to document it how usable it is how much extra time I think it needs if it is usable etc but a lot of this isn't even made anymore here I just have a little bit fresher paper this is a light paper safe so basically in the dark room you don't want to expose your paper you don't want to dig through your box each time so instead you keep it in a safe it's a lot easier to use and access your paper so that's a wrist of paper which is the house of freestyle photo and I actually fine it's really just I think rebranded Kenmore or is it Ken tomorrow I forget I don't really use much of their product perfectly fine paper and it's more affordable than buying ill for other brands so back to the other light table which rarely gets used because you don't really want to turn that on if there's any paper out that's a grain finder so nor so just like when you're pulling focus when you're taking the image you're going to need to pull focus well yeah pull focus on the enlarger basically when you're printing to make sure the image is in focus so right now what I'm trying to do is turn on all the safe lights and see if this camera which is a good camera but I wanted to see if I could get an exposure with all the safe lights on and main lights off I don't think it worked out but we're going to find out right so it looks pretty dark and that's not really a great representation of how dark it actually is when you're in here partly because your eyes do adjust also even at I think I'm at like an ISO of 5600 and it's still really dark here's a print that's drying here's a paper safe here's me toss so that's another paper safe it's just really old one actually better built I would say than the newer ones here very disorganized we have a lot of different things let's see let's wait till I pull in okay we have filters that should be put away in boxes so the filters are for adding contrast when you're making your prints this is a negative carrier for 35 millimeter have negative carriers for every size so there you go so depending on what size negative you're using these are just other filters different type of filter for a different and larger so depending on what size negative you're printing off of that's going to determine obviously the size of the negative carrier but also it's going to determine the lens for the enlarger and here's just another closer look at cameras which actually have way more at home if this looks bad I mean there's I've got like 50 at home random lens filters and caps back of film