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Hello wet printing thread: I tried putting a 4x5 darkroom together when I lived back in the US, and mostly succeeded, but the workspace sucked (cramped and hot) and I never got past making test prints before I moved. I sold it off for what I paid when I left, and kept shooting film (I shot a fair bit in my 20s, including a period of a few years where I did a lot of 120 through a Hasselblad), scanning negs, and... not doing much with them. Since I've sort of settled down again I've been keeping a steady eye on Gumtree and checking the tip shops with the aim to set up one and give it more of a proper go, with zero luck. This morning I finally struck gold at the tip shop... picked up a Meopta 6x6 enlarger with negative carrier, 50 and 75mm lenses (which look to be crap, but w/e, good enlarger lenses are dirt cheap) and a timer for AU$35! Got a nice Cold War, European feel to it; timer is made in West Germany, enlarger in Czechoslovakia. It definitely needs to be taken apart and cleaned/dusted, but everything seems to be working and the lenses aren't scratched or anything. I've got a lot of questions but first one is about whether or not it's OK to keep it in a bathroom that gets all steamy from the shower. I think it'd be a good workspace otherwise (relatively roomy, no windows, water hookup, long countertop), but was worried steam could get in the enlarging lens/condensor lenses and create good conditions for mould to develop. Or is that not likely an issue?
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