Amazing series, love your work and company!

At 5:18 the exposure time should be 5 second start from right to left ? I thought its like photography the longer the expose the lighter

Lost your generation is lost well done look at Robert Frank

I know I did.

What about brodcasting in the 50s and 60s ?

Darkroom work is a lot of fun too. Very satisfying. When you see an image gradually appear on the paper as it's sitting in the developing solution, it's like magic. Almost surreal.

@@AlexStalin-ph2do in that time we did have analog cameraa. They don't record an image as whole frame, but scan the image as horizontal lines with CRT, CRT is sensitive to light and can record what is lighter and what is darker, so if you move the CRT in one line you can make a black and white image line (yes one pixel line) repeat this process every line you'll get a whole frame. Note: analog broadcast camera doesn't have horizontal resolution as the CRT record *everything* in it's horizontal lines, but they have vertical resolution.

NTSC (broadcast standard in US and Japan) has 486 horizontal line

How old are you? When I was growing up, CVS and Walgreens had their own film development lab. Though now CVS has no more lab and Walgreens have a digital lab instead of a film lab. I was born in the late 1980s.

Thanks for watching Derek. Glad you enjoyed it. Do you shoot much film?

@@Ilfordphoto I'm afraid I went over to the digital dark side a few years ago. I've recently been very tempted but a subsequent house move has meant no darkroom and I'm still pondering it as a big commitment. I had considered shooting film and printing digitally- don't shoot me!

It's easier than ever to go back to it:)

@@Ilfordphoto I bought a Nikon F100. Not quite ready for a dark room, but it's a start!

You can always find some old darkroom equipment again, it’s cheap!

@@Ilfordphoto easier than ever? Looks like I have to invest a few thousand bucks on equipment for my dark room

@@kurtfelix1412 There's loads of equipment out there either second hand or in some cases being given away, you just have to keep an eye out.

That's good to hear. Let us know how you get on.

You should give film photography and darkroom printing another go, you obviously miss it:)

Meh, I'd have prefered the print to have been framed, mounted and displayed on a wall.

Mike Edwards your pretty starved

@@raribusta330 Very true, unfortunately.

We couldn't agree more. The magic of printing in the darkroom never goes away no matter how many times we do it.

I started at the age of 24. I'm now 30 still loving the magic!

there is a documentary about andsel adams and shows him in his darkroom. (I am novice photographer using 35mm 1979 olympus camera. ) and i have always just dropped the film off. these documentaries really make me want to have my own darkroom so i can control the finished product.

@@chasestewart8619 Mate it is relatively easy once you've been shown once or twice and you know what equipment and chemicals to buy. It's a shame that there's so few colleges that run courses that include the use of film and printing. The other thing is the people with the skills to teach it are a disappearing breed, I know that once I've gone from my college/course whoever takes over will not continue with teaching using film, they'll take the cop out option of using digital.

I remember being in photography school when my teacher showed off the first digital camera I ever saw. It was the size of 2 bricks side by side and had a screen the size of a postage stamp. That was probably 1998.

@@chasestewart8619 Is that the one that shows him drying his prints in the microwave?

That's fantastic to hear. Enjoy learning to print :)

Do you not fancy giving it a another try? I bet there is a darkroom not too far away....

Wow. That sounds intense. I bet it took your eyes a while to adjust after spending all day in the dark. Although after speaking to some of our production team they say it can be relaxing to work under safelight conditions.

Thanks Zohair. Glad you enjoyed it.

You should definitely have another go at darkroom printing. You can black most rooms our with some black card and tape:)

That's fantasic. Well done.

Facts I will always love this type of work when it comes to photography! These type of picture have more meaning to them then the modern digital era!

Thanks so much for watching. We're really glad that we've inspired you to get back in the darkroom. Which public darkroom are you currently using?

@@Ilfordphoto I'm using a local darkroom in Oxford called Fusion Arts darkroom: www.artsjobs.org.uk/arts-news/post/fusion-arts-darkroom-open-for-bookings/ It's been really helpful being able to get back into printing my b&w negatives.

We agree Mark. We can hopefully show people the basic steps to get them to have a go, but after that its hard to share the experience. We are just in the process of releasing some new videos that we hope will go a little way to doing this kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mJObmKeB2bzSd3U.html

Really glad to hear that Jayden, we agree that there's nothing quite like the magic of printing in the darkroom. If you are taking photography at school then it may be worth mentioning our student competition to your tutor www.ilfordphoto.com/studentcomp2018

I agree. I wonder if you became immune to seeing all of those precious memories appear or if it was always special

And it stays magical no matter how often you do it!

Thanks you. We hope that you found it useful

Glad you found it helpful. Enjoy your time in the darkroom

Glad you enjoyed it. Please share some images and if you are in the UK please encourage your students to enter of competition. www.ilfordphoto.com/studentcomp2020

Thanks for sharing that, glad you enjoyed the video even if it wasn't what you were looking for initially. If you fancy trying your hand at shooting black and white film then there are lots of other videos on our channel to help you get started.

You should definitely give it a go! Depending on where you live, there may be a community darkroom nearby that you can learn at too.

@@Ilfordphoto I live in a capital city so there definitely should be one around! This art is one I find to be absolutely magical.

Love the bookmark idea Ricky! And yes there are loads of younger people shooting film. 35mm is the most popular but 120 format isn't far behind:)

hi! yep I shoot film and Im in high school

@@Nicky-fi6jy no one cares

why only born after 2000 ??

@@livelongandprosper70 why spread negativity man the world is a so much better place without it

That's so exciting. You do realise that it gets more addictive the longer you spend in the darkroom?

@@Ilfordphoto Yep,!!!

I will find it totally liberating

Thank you :)

We're planning to -Have you watch the Making a print one too?

Thanks Daniella, that's what we hoped for when we produced these videos

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. Do you print in the darkroom yourself?

Sadly, no. Not since school. Im such an analog person too. I miss this

Do you not print in the darkroom now Roger?

Hi Andrew - We are in the process of updating our darkroom finder on ilfordphoto.com Obviously many are shut at the moment but we hope that we'll have a good selection on here in future.

Exciting. Please let us know if you do set up a darkroom space and maybe share some images on our #MyDarkroom gallery on ilfordphoto.com

|Have you ever had a go at darkroom printing yourself?

Disagree all around. You can get an enlarger and all the developing kit you need off auctions or Craigslist for under $200 if not less, and a nice SLR + prime lens is about $100 or so. You can make a heck of a lot of prints from many rolls of film for well under $1000, and that Sony A7 is something like twice that. That film camera and enlarger will keep you going for decades while you'll be replacing the Sony and the printer for a newer model in a few years. I'm still using cameras made 60 years ago and they work great, and give great results. The analogue look and digital look are quite different - it's of course up to the viewer which you prefer but for me I like both the images I take and the process more with analogue methods than I do with the DSLR I previously used. YMMV.

Still doing it 50 years now they are a richer print than digital

Comparing digital prints and darkroom prints, one is not better than the other. Traditional darkroom prints have a really nice look about them which is different to digital prints and some people really like that particular look and may prefer it over the digital route. And as for grainy b & w prints, yes you can have a fair amount of grain in some images as a result of a number of factors. And once again, some people really like grain. It's an individual thing. It's also possibly to have fine grained b & w prints. For example, the finished print in the video didn't really look particularly grainy to me. And by shooting medium speed film stocks in larger sizes (eg medium format and large format) you can produce extremely fine grained prints. In such cases, the grain would be just about invisible - even with big prints.

Great to hear Gailan:) There is nothing quite like a darkroom print

That's really interesting Bill. This video was filmed in one of our 'in house' darkrooms with a standard digital camera I think. :)

The image isn't really 'pushed.' The negative is projected on to the paper with the light from the enlarger. This creates a latent image on the paper (an image that is temporarily invisible.) Developer is then used to make the image visible.

Learning is definitely the fun part, and I think the more time you spend in the darkroom, the more likely you are to go back to older prints and re-print them slightly differently as you find what works best for you and your negatives.

@@Ilfordphoto yes... My thoughts also...

Some closed but we're seeing more re-open which is fantastic. There are also more community darkroom opening each year

I'd love to see some of those extreme pulls! 6 and 12 asa are pretty low. Are you on social media? Please share some of your prints and shots with us. #ilfordpanf #ilfordfp4

Hi, thanks for commenting on my post, I would be happy to send some prints to you, as i don`t do social media, I think they would look better in the flesh, Let me know if you would be interested ?

@@jonathanbaxter4366 I'd hate for them to just be sat in our office, it's a waste of a print but thank you for the offer.

@@Ilfordphoto Hi, I could try emailing them over if that helps, I could take them on my phone, it will give you an idea of how they look?

Or if you have whats app that would be quicker?

Oh wow. We always recommend 2 minutes fixing just to be safe:)

I can think of nothing better that spending that much time in the darkroom.