What are the key features to look for in an enlarger for my needs?

I want to get into shooting black and white just seeing if anyone had any useful tips. I use a canon Ae1 don’t know if that makes any difference. What sort of settings should i have my camera? Does lighting make a difference from color and b&w? What would happen if you develop a color film with b&w chemicals? Just anything yall have found different between the two. Anything problems that yall have come across. 😀 (newbie)

I'm about to develop a Kodak ULTRA 400, but I just realized that my cámara was set as 300 iso by mistake. How should I adjust the developing times??? Thanks!

How often does the enlarger need maintenance?

How much distance between the enlarger and paper do you need for optimal projection?

Hello all, I am trying to get into developing my own film! Christmas is coming up and i’m trying to find a kit or just a link to everything i need. If yall have any amazon recommendations or brands of chemicals that are good. I have only shot in color so far but not afraid to go into black and white. If anyone has any tips lmk!

I always see nice clean contact prints but I keep getting this weird effect where image borders bleed. I'm using a glass contact printer that puts pressure on my negs to keep the flat.

I've been sitting on these for most of this year and finally set aside time develop them. My tanks only support a single 120 roll, so it took a good chunk of the day. I was able to do two tanks at a time though to shorten it a bit.

Looked it up here: https://www.digitaltruth.com/devchart.php?devrow=10562

From the start of a roll and the end of a relationship. 2023. Love printing “to the black”, as Bourke-White put it, even when there is no more negative.

Trying to get a nice crop out of a 6x6 light leaked negative. Loving the tones and textures on the leaves.

Hi darkroomers I have set a small darkroom in bath and I try to understand how to do my first test strip. I watched YouTube video and try to understand ,I am setting exposure to f8 and focus.i close light and I have a new paper in dark with red 🚨 I need help to understand time I set timer 3 sec and expose the first part of paper (the rest is darkened with a card paper) then I remove card and expose again the second strip at 3 sec again After that remove card and expose again 3 sec ,totally 21 sec 7 strips Is it ok do I understand it right ot I must Do the procedure by adding time; As example I exposure first parrt 3 sec Then I add time at timer and exposure 6 sec so I have first strip 3 sec,second 6 sec E.t.c please help me to understand

Just developed my first roll of 120 from my Mamiya 645 1000s.

My first 4 shots aren’t there the and film started mid 5th shot. Lots of left over film on the end, which is odd because after the 15th shot the camera didn’t cycle again like the film was at the end of the roll and it wasn’t.

Did I load the film wrong? Is this a camera issue? Never ran into this with 35mm

Appreciate any insight

Pretty dense negatives, so hard to get any contrast from them. This was printed using a Meopta Color 3 (diffuser) head on grade 4.5.

Hi all,

I'm currently building an enlarger from scratch (3d printing and basic woodwork) that uses a canon FD 50mm lens.

It's a WIP but I'm using and LED light source (I know this isn't ideal) but I'm currently trying to dial in light output in lumens.

Does anyone have an enlarger on which they could share the lumen output when it isn't loaded with a negative? I.e. If you happen to have a lumen or lux meter laying around?

TIA.

I've never actually used an enlarger as of yet, but figured I'd put my industrial design degree to work after many years. If all goes to plan I'll share the schematics.