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Old 4th November 2017, 05:43 PM
JOReynolds JOReynolds is offline
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I can't help with hardware, but here's a bit of hard-won advice. I taught darkroom technique to sixth-formers a year ago. I negotiated a six-week syllabus, one day per week, with the school, with very limited resources. The schedule seemed realistic but I overlooked one important detail: the darkrooms were not fully light-tight, so we had to use the three available changing bags. With nine students, three changing bags and four Paterson spirals/tanks, how many students could load and process their film in a two-hour lesson? The answer was disappointing. It would have been better for me to load the spirals and transfer to tanks, because several students got stuck and therefore didn't have negatives to print during the next lesson, a week later. This was a shame because there was enormous enthusiasm.
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