What are darkrooms (in photography)?

Answer 1

exactly what is says, Dark Rooms. In rooms where film is developed, there is no light at all until the film is in the developer. In rooms where the photos are developed, there is minimal light.

However, with the advent of today's machinery, dark rooms are not used as often as they once were. Home photo buffs, and some larger photo processing places still use them tho.

Answer 2

I don't understand why that guy got the thumbs down for saying that you don't need a darkroom to develop film. His answer is 100% correct and the asker should consider the question resolved.

Of course you don't need a darkroom to develop film. You only need darkness when you transfer the film from the cannister into the developing tank. Like he said, you can use a changing bag-or heck, just sit in your closet and shut the door to load film.

You really only need a darkroom to hand process enlargements and reprints, just like he said.

And finally, there are actually differences between a darkroom and a dark room.

Answer 3

Photography works because the media, (film and paper) is sensitive to light. The camera's lens and other settings control exactly how much light and where the light exposes the film. When prints are made, the enlarger controls the exposure and exact placement of light.

In other words, the medium's exposure to light has to be very carefully controlled, so the picture will not be spoiled.

A darkroom is a place where there is no stray light let in to improperly expose and spoil a roll of undeveloped film or print. It takes very little light to ruin unprocessed film and paper. Certain chemicals are used to process the film and paper so that the media is no longer sensitive to light. When film is processed, you can look at your negatives without spoiling them. The same is true for a potographic print. Once it has been developed, ordinary light will not spoil the print.

Answer 4

Generally a darkroom is where a hand-made photographic print is made.

You do not need a darkroom to process your film. You can use a dark bag to open and load your film into the developer tank.

Answer 5

The reason it is called a dark room is because when you first remove the film from the camera to prepare it for developing there can be absolutely no light coming in. It's almost as if you are blind feeling your way around the film and the spool it has to fit around to soak in the developer.

Black and White film doesn't require as strict discipline for development as color film. Which is why when you load a camera if you notice it seems to take a little while before the film takes hold, is because it allows you to feed the film through the process of development without actually damaging the film.

But since the rise of the digital camera you are seeing less film cameras being manufactured because the price of a digital has come way down from when they first came out on the market.

Answer 6

a darkroom is a room where you develop a film... photos can be printed and it usually has equibment such as the machine where u put the picture paper in and after it's soaked up the photo will show on it.. and it's also used to enhance old pictures...at least that's how it used to be before. now people just use digital cameras.

Answer 7

for black and white film:
you need a dark room to open up your film canister and put in on the developing roll so that you can run it through the developing process.

secondly a darkroom (light tight room - usually with safelight and areas to develop paper and film) is for enlarging your negatives (from your film) onto light sensitive paper (hense the reason why a dark room is needed) until it has been run through the chemicals to fix the image from the negative onto the paper, you cannot take that light sensitive paper out - otherwise the image won't show up.

Answer 8

where you develop the film

Answer 9

rooms where you develope film

Answer 10

where you develop film and enlarge photographs