In my film days I was rather lucky, Manchester Photographic Society had it's own darkrooms, as did Bury Photographic - in those places many senior members taught me all about the darkroom and it's secrets - colour and B&W. Then I bought a house with a four room cellar and my own darkrooms took shape. Then along came digital, as a computer geek I found myself in my element but still remembered nostalgically the smell of the hypo and sloshing about in trays made from guttering and drainpipe to get a six foot by ten foot print - (paper pinned to a wall upstairs with the enlarger horizontal to project the negative - 20-30 minutes if I remember rightly - dodging and burning done wearing some webbed wicket keeping gloves to increase my hand size). Now digital is a lot easier than that. But I now have a Fuji GA645Zi Pro film camera, and I get someone else to process and scan to disc
