Analog film photography and cameras

Fantastic photos wombat, really nice use (+brave) of light and contrast.

mechanical vandal, nice blagging work! LPL7700 is a very good enlarger, I got a 6700 and as much kit from a college darkroom facility (other enlargers were spoken for but everything else up for grabs) for £20 and some help clearing up the place (an afternoon & evening basically). But only got a 35mm slide plate for it, been looking for a 6x6, 6x7, 6x9 and a proper 35 neg plate but they are pretty rare to be found on their own. thinking I Might just buy an ebay LPL for its plates then put the remainder on freecycle, let someone else find their own plates :P

You'll soon find yourself needing more and more space in darkroom, seen a book called something liek the 'minimal darkroom' which would be worth a read ;)
give caffenol a whirl, I wouldn't use it for important prints as I have no idea how good it is with coping with UV etc, but good fun and can be a cheap print dev :D

I'll have a look for the book, cheers.
Those LPL plates are ridunkulously expensive if you buy them new!
I thought the enlarger was going to be one of those egg shaped things or something equally as cheap but was well impressed when I turned up and saw that sitting there!
I can see myself re-organising my room around the darkroom stuff although it wasn't bad using it last night.
Realised this morning that while the blackout blind I got does a good enough job at night, there's no way I'll be printing during daylight hours. Bit disappointing but not really much of an issue just now, I can try and sort something else before the days start getting longer again.