This 16-clip clothes hanger from Ikea is great for hanging film up to dry. It has built-in clips that don’t slide, is heavy enough to stay balanced, and is flippin’ cheap. Jabba clothes hanger, $4.99 USD.   And it kind of looks like the Nanerpus:

It’s coming back, maybe in August [2008]! ADOX says: The Emulsions for this paper are being produced on the original Agfa machinery which ADOX purchased together with former Agfa engineers from the liquidator of AgfaPhoto in Leverkusen. They are identical in all measurable parameters with the papers formerly sold by Agfa under the “Agfa Multicontrast [...]

Check out these how-to videos by Luke Healey on loading 120 film onto reels for at-home DIY film processing.   Loading metal reels:   Loading Paterson plastic reels:

Solarization is overexposure to the point of tonal reversal, where areas on the film that would be totally black (the sun, for example) start to get lighter again. You can achieve the same thing printing in the darkroom by turning on the lights during developing. (Technically doing it in camera is called soliarization and in [...]

Ilford press release: ILFORD PHOTO has launched a campaign to enhance the position, standing and future of the UK’s darkrooms and associated creative techniques. Inspired by those involved in the analogue photographic industry, from manufacturers to the media, the campaign is designed to be a vehicle to establish a new future for darkroom photography. By [...]

There’s a funny (and actually educational) thread at APUG about using urea, a component of urine, as an accelerator for film developers. Check it out.

See what happens when alspix—the man who brought us the now-legendary matchbox pinhole camera—processes film in year-old, over-used C-41 colour negative chemistry from a DIY kit. The results are surprising! Read about it at Alspix Stuff. He used this Nova C-41 kit, which is available in the UK. For those in the US, check out [...]

Tim Haynes writes: I was looking for a cheap and convenient way to make small enlargement prints, particularly from 5×4″ black and white negatives, but without the expense of buying a proper large-format enlarger (to say nothing of the space such a thing would occupy). Does that sound like you? Sounds like me! Check out [...]

I’m helping my friend Jonathan get set up to do his own black and white film processing, so I made him a shopping list. I suggested the Jobo 2500 daylight tank because it looks good on paper, and I can’t recommend my Paterson Multi-Reel 5 Tank/Super System 4 kit. The Paterson is a plastic tank [...]

Photographer Sean Rohde dug up and scanned a bunch of his darkroom experiments from the late 80s and early 90s. There are heaps of images along with explanations of how each was done. He writes: Way back when, from 1988 to around 1992, I actually had a full darkroom. I currently just develop my own [...]