Brand new & need help

[digiman112]

I spent all afternoon yesterday in the darkroom. I wasted 3 sheets of paper and produced 7 acceptable colour prints. It's not cost effective but it is fun.

Overall, the hassle of setting up the darkroom every time I want to use it and dismantling after is a bit of a chore. The cost of the chemicals and paper is more than sending films away to be processed and printed. If I wanted to save money I should probably have just bought some photos to hang on the wall. Then I wouldn't have had to go to the expense of buying a camera at all!

I say, "Give it a go".:thumbup:

/Phil.

Haha it sounds like you're enjoying it!
Do you have any tips on perhaps making the process slightly more cost efficient? I've been wanting to try for years but the last time I tried I ended up completely messing up the process and the prints were awful, I had to get a specialist to do them for me (www.supaphoto.com I think it was)
But now that I have time and I can see other people managing to do this successfully I'd really like to give it a go but without so many mistakes this time because my budget won't support it