The Facilities at Zoom-In
A Guide to our Darkrooms

The darkrooms at Zoom In are made up of a large main room, a smaller second room and the drying area. By providing two darkroom spaces we are able to offer our members a room for individual use, should you want to be undisturbed, while enlarging prints. This room also provides a separate space where you wont be disturbed while loading films.

Our darkroom equipment consists of eight enlargers in the main darkroom and an extra three in the second room. These are LPL C7700's, Durst M670ês, one LPL 7450 and a De vere 504. Our enlargers cater for negatives from 35mm (well even 8x11mm!) to 5x4 large format. We use dish processing up to a size of 16"x20". In the drying area we have flat bed drying cabinets, a resin coated roller dryer and fibre-based dryers. If you would like to develop your own black and white films we provide all the tanks, spools, graduates and chemicals.

When you come in to use the darkroom we provide the necessary darkroom chemicals for print developing and/or film processing. We use either Ilford or, if Ilford is unavailable, Kodak chemicals.

When you use the darkroom there is always someone from Zoom In around who will set up the equipment and chemicals for you and will be on hand throughout the session.

If you have used darkrooms in the past but have maybe not have practiced for a while omit worry! At Zoom In we like to encourage everybody to get started again. So if you are feeling a little rusty or are just unsure about using our darkroom for the first time we offer members Assisted Darkroom Sessions or if you are really rusty you might like to attend a refresher course in Darkroom Printing

In addition to the darkroom facilities we also have a small studio room that can be used by our members.

Our Darkroom Facilities:

Enlargers:

• 1 x De Vere 504 ® 35mm to 5 x 4 large format printing
• 1 x LPL 7450 ® 35mm to 5 x 4 large format printing
• 4 x Durst M670 ® 35mm to 6 x 7 medium format printing
• 5 x LPL C7700 ® 35mm to 6 x 7 medium format printing

Printing Equipment:

• Easels ® up to 16” x 20”
• Contact Printers ® 35mm, 5 x 4 large format and Universal Printers
• Enlarging lenses from 28mm to 135mm

Printing Chemicals:

• Developer: Ilford PQ Universal
• Stop: Ilford Ilfostop Pro
• Fix: Ilford Hypam Rapid Fixer

Film Processing Chemicals:

• Developer: Ilford ID11 / Kodak D90
• Stop: Ilford Ilfostop pro
• Fix: Ilford Hypam Rapid Fixer

For Drying Films And Prints:

• Film Drying Cabinet
• Resin Coated (roller) dryer
• Flat-bed Resin coated flat bed dryers
• Fibre based dryers

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Laboratory coats
• gloves
• masks
• goggles

How to find us

Our premises are handy for all London locations. We are situated on Clapham High Street, midway between Clapham North and Clapham Common tube stations on the Northern line. Please see our location page for exact location and directions on how to find us.

Please see our page on How to Book the Darkroom

Alternatively email us via our Member Enquiries Form

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