Dark Room

The Dark Room is a room that is dark and where the films are being developed. This is where the printing is done. The room is needed to be dark due to the fact that the printing paper can be easily expose to any bright source of light. The result would be a black print when it is soaked in the developer solution.


This is the layout of the dark room. The sink in the middle of the room is where the developer solution, the stop bath solution, the fixer solution, the lower rinse, and the upper rinse is located. It is not advisable to go in this room with any source of bright light, such as bright phone screen or the normally used lights in the classrooms or office areas.

This is a machine used to expose the film stripes onto the paper and created a contact print. The contact print is use for looking at each individual frame on one sheet so later it can be printed onto a bigger scale. The machine uses a timer to expose the film with high density light. The timer has a pointer where the time is set in seconds and the longer the time it takes the film to expose to a printing sheet, the darker the film exposure will come out.

Once the contact print is looked over, this machine that has the similar functions to the previous machine used to make a contact sheet is used to make a single frame expose onto a printing sheet in a bigger scale. When the decision of deciding which frame to enlarge, remove the strip for the slip and place the strip in the negative tray facing up-side down. Place a tape on the negative to stop the strip from moving around.

Overall the Dark Room is an interesting place to work in. The different environment of the room and the classroom did take time to get use to but in the end, the extreme change in the light source doesn't bother me much more. Work in the Dark Room is exciting because I barely like to work in a bright environment which is a nice change from the bright classrooms environment.