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Darkroom Hire | Photographic Printing  

At Photofusion, we're committed to making our darkrooms as accessible as possible. As such we offer new and lapsed members half price annual membership with their first darkroom booking:

DISCOUNTED PRICE: £25.00 (usual price £50.00)

This offer is available until further notice.

Also, until the end of June we are making our evening sessions even more affordable:

DISCOUNTED PRICE: £20.00 (usual price £30.00)

Call us on 020 7738 5774 to make your booking.

 
DARKROOM RENTAL PRICES (inc VAT)  
   
  Full Price Concessions  
Daytime session (4 hrs) £25.00 £20.00  
Daytime session (6 hrs) £30.00 £25.00  
Evening session (4 hrs) £20.00 £20.00  
Saturday (6 hrs) £30.00 £25.00  
   
OPENING TIMES  
   
  Daytime Evening  
Monday 11:00 - 17:00 -  
Tuesday 11:00 - 15:00 18:00 - 22:00  
Wednesday 11:00 - 17:00 -  
Thursday 11:00 - 17:00 18:00 - 22:00  
Friday 11:00 - 17:00 -  
Saturday 11:00 - 17:00 -  
       
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ABOUT DARKROOM HIRE  
   
Photofusion’s rental darkroom is one of the largest and best equipped in London. The darkroom is air-conditioned and fitted with top of the range Advena 5x4” enlargers. There are 4 dedicated black and white enlargers and 3 dedicated colour enlargers each housed in it's own booth equipped with a white-light viewing hood. Note: all enlargers print B&W via automatic multigrade filters.

Within the darkroom is a white-light controlled viewing room enabling users to accurately check their prints without leaving the darkroom and the darkroom is also equipped with sinks, trays and two 20x16” archival print washers,

The colour RA-4 paper machine processes prints up to 20"x24' (dry to dry in 4 minutes). The black & white paper machine processes prints up to 20"x16" (dry to dry in 2.5 minutes). Similarly, the maximum size for fibre-based tray printing is 20"x16".

All of our enlargers accept negative masks covering formats from 35mm to 5"x4” (including X-Pan, 6x9cm etc) as well as black border masks for all formats. Technical assistance for both darkrooms is available at all times.

Members are expected to supply their own photographic paper (we do not sell paper), cans of air, gloves, lupes etc. Anyone wishing to use their own paper developer must make this known at the time of booking.

 
DARKROOM COURSES  
   
Black & White Photographic Printing Course  
   
Please contact us for details
 
   
SPECIAL OFFER:
Course participants are entitled to a 50% discount on Photofusion annual membership (full price: £50) if taken out before completion of the course.
 
   
A rare chance to learn the craft of traditional fine printing from one of London’s premier printers. This intensive course takes students from the basic fundamentals of black & white through to the more advanced techniques utilised in the making of exhibition-quality prints. Taking place in our professionally equipped air-conditioned darkrooms, the course runs over two evenings and will cover topics such as resin-coated and fibre-based variable contrast papers, dodging & burning, pre-flashing, and archival processing.

Places are limited to enable each participant access to their own enlarger thus affording the opportunity to combine observation of particular demonstrations with the chance to put techniques into practice individually.

Photofusion supplies all paper and chemistry. You will be contacted nearer the time regarding what negs to bring.

This course only covers the printing of images from already processed film - it does not cover the topic of film processing itself. Participants should therefore bring previously processed negatives. Photofusion offers a full black & white processing service for those who do not already have their own processing facilities.
 
Please call us on 020 7738 5774 to book a place.  
         
All prices include VAT        
         
24 Hour Cancellation Policy  
Photofusion operates a 24 hour cancellation policy on all its rental facilities.
Any sessions cancelled within this time are payable in full.
 

Photofusion darkrooms are managed by Paul Ellis
darkrooms@photofusion.org

 

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DARKROOM COURSES
Black & White Photographic Printing. More info...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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