So HD has been up and running for almost three months now. After 15 years of processing film for myself I decided to take my knowledge to the public.
Whilst many have told me that film is dying and digital is taking over I'd like to offer an opinion contrary to this. Business is growing as more and more people find out about HD proving that despite the high street labs shutting down their film processing machines there are still a huge number of us shooting with analogue cameras.
All services are available, B&W, E6, C41. I've cross processed both Transparency and for the first time colour negative (with interesting results) and lots of you are asking for push processing on a regular basis.
On the B&W front I've increased the number of developers I use adding Ilford Microphen and Perceptol to the range. Perceptol due to my own desire to find a fine grain developer for fine art work.
I am hoping to add 5x4 sheet film processing to my armoury in the month of July.
The one area that hasn't been used yet is hand printing black & white photographs. I guess that with the increasing number of high resolution home scanners and some excellent photo printers available at reasonable prices, you are all doing this at home :-) Even I have to admit that I'm now using a Epson Stylus Pro 9800 Large Format printer to print colour for my last exhibition and current competition entries. At 19"x19" the results have been faultless. With my black and white work I'm still hand printing on fibre base paper.
I'm going to add a biography to this site soon and share ideas for services I'd like to offer. I'm happy to answer questions about my darkroom set up and welcome suggestions from you as to what processing, printing or scanning you'd like me to be offering.
As always thanks for reading.
Matthew
www.hampshiredarkroom.co.uk
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