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matthew 7th April 2019 09:51 PM

hello from the Gold Coast, Australia
 
Hi my name is Matthew. I live in the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia. I am originally from Sydney.
I've been using film cameras since I was 10 years old. I started using darkrooms when I was 17 year old. I worked in an advertising agency a young man as a darkroom assistant with some work in the studio. I have used other peoples' darkrooms over the years. Now we are building our own small home and will set up a dedicated darkroom. It will be a room 3m x 3m in size. I plan to have a dry bench for enlargers, and a wet bench for film and paper dev. The temps here in Australia can be very hot so ventilation and air conditioning are almost always necessary. We hope to have our home completed in 6 months, so that will be October, 2019. I am here to learn from others. This will be my planning and research into setting up my new darkroom properly and efficiently. Thanks in advance for allowing me to join this forum and I hope to enjoy the time spent here.

Bob 8th April 2019 02:12 AM

Welcome to the forum Matthew.

Sounds like you are in the ideal situation as far as darkrooms go - 9 sq meters all to yourself to design!

Given that Australia appears to be situated approximately 3 miles from the surface of the Sun, I can imagine that keeping things cool can be a major problem - not one I have often here in the UK...

Any queries, ask away - I'm sure all will be happy to make suggestions :).

Cheers, and have fun!

MartyNL 8th April 2019 06:51 AM

Hi Matthew and welcome to fadu. I hope you will consider taking part in the print exchanges when you're up and running. In the meantime, best of luck with the build.

mono 8th April 2019 07:01 AM

Welcome to the forum, Matthew!

Molli 8th April 2019 07:36 AM

Welcome from around 350 hours walk south of you. I can empathise with the temperature issue having just patiently outwaited Summer to get some reasonable darkroom weather. I don't have any form of climate control in my house (no air-conditioning and not considering it an overly bright idea to use the open fireplace in the darkroom) so, being in Victoria, every other day I have to worry about it being too cold when, the other week, it was 32° at 2a.m.

My darkroom is a spare bedroom in a rental property so I'm well practiced at working around obstacles if you need any ideas. Having your own home with a dedicated space, however, sounds as though you're well ahead of the game! Enjoy it - it's the best thing in the world to be able to simply close a door, pour some chemicals and start printing whenever the mood takes you.

Kindly,
Molli

Barry 8th April 2019 09:24 AM

Welcome to fadu Matthew.

Mike O'Pray 8th April 2019 11:27 AM

Welcome Matthew. Just a pity that we are about 10 hours apart :D

If you have any problems with film development I think we can all rule out too low a temperature as one of the causes :D

Mike

JimW 8th April 2019 01:00 PM

Welcome to the forum...

CambsIan 8th April 2019 04:03 PM

Hi Matthew, welcome to the forum.

Loads of knowledge on here that people are happy to pass on.

Ian

Richard Gould 8th April 2019 06:27 PM

Hi Matthew and welcome to Fadu
Richard


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