Foreword
As a professional photographer, I consider myself lucky to be so totally immersed in this evolutionary step of digital photography. I began working with Photoshop at version 2.5, and as the program got better and computers got faster, Photoshop time overtook darkroom time. My computer officially became my darkroom in 2001.
Still, there were aspects of the “old days” that I missed. For instance, I enjoyed vignetting portraits by hand, in the darkroom. I always felt my organic vignettes added a degree of charm to the images that they wouldn’t have otherwise had.
Kodak makes terrific black and white infrared film, but best results with it are obtained by hand processing in the darkroom, something I now have little time to do.
Some equipment, ...
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