That's an interesting idea. Printing without a dark room.

[MrDrizz]

Very interesting and novel idea.

View: https://youtu.be/PkV6DCUMGjQ?si=gN2HXJCFXl5uvsdI

 

[Garry Edwards]

There's nothing new under the sun . . .

I remember something very similar, maybe 60 years ago. I never actually tried it because it was so limited, but presumably some people did buy it.

Me? I just used my long-suffering mum's kitchen as a darkroom at night

 

[Dave Canon]

One snag is how can you dodge and burn?

Dave

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

There's nothing new under the sun . . .

Quite right.

Some press photographers could be issued with boxes that converted into a fixed focus enlarger. There was also a support for a "dark tent". I can't remember how they developed the paper but I imagine it involved a monobath. There was a short programme from the sixties or thereabouts on "TalkingPictures TV" which dealt with facsimile transmission and these darkroom boxes came into it.

 

[Garry Edwards]

I think this may be a machine that I was proudly shown in Reuters London office once, it was quite large and was basically some kind of revolving drum scanner. Fit a photo or document to one somewhere in the world and send it to the office via phone line, it took hours, would have cost a fortune in phone charges and the calls would have dropped quite often, but it was the top technology at that time

 

[Kevin Allan]

How appropriate for Halloween - it turns out you can use something that looks like a witches hat to make prints

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

I think this may be a machine that I was proudly shown in Reuters London office once, it was quite large and was basically some kind of revolving drum scanner.

Would you believe that the original patent was granted to Alexander Bain in 1843? One Shelford Bidwell then added scanning to the device in 1880. Much more here...

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