Dark Room Kits

A dark room kit provides you with all the items you need to get started developing your own projects. The kit consists of an enlarger, lenses, a cylinder, thermometer, stirring paddle, developing tank, developing trays, film clips, a squeegee, a timer, developing paper, and chemistry film developer. Together, these items will allow you to complete projects in your own dark room.

The enlarger allows you to take your negatives and make them into the size of prints you want. The lenses allow you to magnify the negatives. All of the other items are for ease in processing.

The cost of a dark room



print varies from seventy five dollars to thousands of dollars. It really depends on what quality you are wanting. If you are doing this as a hobby, most average priced kits will meet your needs as well as provide you will good quality photos. If you are doing professional jobs, then likely you will want some advanced kit with the top of the line products.

You can find great deals on used dark room kits at some photography shops or online. Ebay has pages of photography equipment for sale. Regardless of the kit you choose, it should provide you with all the basic items you will need to get started.


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