University of Bristol Photographic Society
Darkroom Kit List
The Darkroom Kit List
The following is a list of the equipment you can find in our darkrooms.
If you were looking to book darkroom time, head over to the darkroom booking page. If you're new to film processing, check out our range of workshops to get you started.
Both darkrooms contain equipment for black and white work and Darkroom A also has colour processing facilities. You only need to bring in your own chemicals and paper. They each have a CD radio cassette player to keep you entertained for those many, dark, hours.
The main equipment available in each includes:
- Durst M605 colour enlargers with 50mm lenses
- Nova film dryers
- Nova RC paper dryers
- RC paper washers
- Paterson film processing tanks (4)
- Contact printers for 35mm and 6*6
- Dimmable lightboxes with lupes
- Paper trimmers and cutting mats
- Easels and trays from 5"*7" to 12"*16"
- Ilford below lens Multigrade filters
- Plus all the little bits and pieces
Darkroom A: extra equipment.
- Kaiser Duka5 colour safelight
- Slide contact printer
- Jobo CPE2 colour processor with lift
Darkroom B: extra equipment.
- fibre-base paper washers and dryers
- bulk film loader
- Larger developing trays (20"*24")
- Tetenal automatic film processor