Hi there - I'm looking to buy some dark room equipment to start
developing my own black and white prints. I've come across the
following two items on ebay and I wonder whether anyone knows if they
are any good?

The camera is a Sputnik.  For those who don't know, it's a Soviet era
Medium Format stereo camera.  It takes six 6x6 stereo pairs on a roll
of 120 film.  Although they are notorious for various problems, this
one has been tuned, does not leak light, and the shutter, aperture and

The camera is a Sputnik.  For those who don't know, it's a Soviet era
Medium Format stereo camera.  It takes six 6x6 stereo pairs on a roll
of 120 film.  Although they are notorious for various problems, this
one has been tuned, does not leak light, and the shutter, aperture and

I'd really like one with a small sensor (on the order or 1/32" dia) on the
end of a long fiber optic cable. Size of the meter doesn't matter, but the
size of its price does. Regular lightmeters with attachments would be good,
too.

complete besseler 23c with dicroic color head, timer, easels light box,
books, lenses, color analyzer many negative carriers, negatrans, motor and
base, canisters, etc, located in northern nj, this is a complete set up
ready to print color photos., also diffuser lens for black ...

i dilute working solution from stock.  but in any print session, i only develop
2 to 3 sheets (sometimes only one), so i wanna hear your suggestion about how
to treat the remaining working solution, throw them into the drain?
i also like to know any _well used_ one-shot receipt as ...

I have a King concept Image Maker II. - I do not know anything about
it, picked it up at an auction.
If anyone needs parts or they live in Texas (San Antonio)and want the
whole shabang then I am selling cheap. Write to me with your wants.

i shot some rolls of delta400 120 in south west national parks during
my last trip there with my wife. i couldn't shot slower film for a
number of reasons, i'm sorry.
i'd love to be able to make some very large prints, up to 20x24"

people said, print paper is 'developed to completion', i think it's right. it
means a minimal exposure/develop time used to get a maximized density of
paper. but, after we got this exposure/develop time under any given temperature
and use it under this temperature consistently, why ...

Just a thought, and please excuse if it turns out to be completely off the
wall. What if one were to process film a fine-grain developer (say,
Microdol-X) using stand development: would this give you both fine grain and
high acutance due to the lack of agitation?

For the first time in a very long time I developed a roll of 120 Kodak Professional 400 TX last night.  When I poured out my usual pre-soak water, before adding the developer to the tank, the solution was a bright blue in color.  Is Kodak using a new water-soluble antihalation ...

My neighbor gave me a ton of old b&w stuff to see if I could use it...and I
ran across a 25 pak of Kodak Medalist paper, it's still sealed and unopened,
I don 't know anything about this paper or even if it's any good ...can
someone enlighten me about this old paper...TIA

Our traditional photographs are deteriorating with every passing
moment. Faces and colors fade with the passage of time and someday
these visual memories will be lost forever.
Photomax  provides an easy solution to the inevitable fate of your

I had been taught standard inversion small-tank processing a long time
back, and am recently returning to self-processing black and white
films.  This time, though, it's with a Jobo rotary processor.
I had always used 250-300ml per roll of developer (whatever would