Jack BatyJun 29, 2024

I'm making brand-new silver gelatin prints from century-old negatives and it's making me giddy. I had always planned to make a custom holder and dig out the 4x5 enlarger, but it occurred to me that these negatives are big enough for simple contact prints, so that's what I'm doing.

Also, never throw away your negatives! 100 years from now, someone might want to make new prints from them.

#FilmPhotography

Show threadAdamJun 29, 2024
@jbaty @moragperkins
Those are some wonderful prints. Definitely agree with keeping negatives. Just started making new silver gelatin prints from my old B&W negatives. Only 35mm and only half a century old but they seem as good as new after being stored in glassine pages for all these years. Did take a moment to figure out the new fangled timer in the public darkroom being as it was a positively youthful 30 year old model…
Show threadJack Baty
@acavan So much fun, isn't it? You're lucky to have a public darkroom nearby.
Jun 29, 2024 at 7:07pmWeb
Show threadAdamJun 29, 2024

@jbaty I can’t imagine ever growing tired of seeing an image appear in the developer tray. San Francisco’s darkroom, now The Harvey Milk Photo Center, has been in operation since 1940. Between my high school’s darkroom and the B&W photo lab where I worked through high school, I didn’t use it very often back in the day (mid 1970s) but it remains an amazing resource. Coincidentally, the lab I worked in did the B&W work for Harvey’s shop, Castro Camera.

#sfba #hmpc