ch for questions: Does anyone still uses a darkroom to develop and print negatives?

Yup, I sure do. I develop ALL my own black and white film and pictures. In fact, I just made a set of prints last night in the darkroom in my garage. From a Zeiss Ikon Nettar camera and Kodak Plus-X film.

I have a collection of vintage 35mm and 120 size film cameras. For the past 4 months, 90 percent of the pictures I've taken are with FILM. I have an 8 megapixel digital camera, but it has sat on a shelf in my bedroom collecting dust. For me, taking pictures with a completely manual film camera really is a lot more fun. It's more challenging and rewarding. Also, my film cameras can get a LOT more detail and completely blow away my digital camera. I've been able to magnify some of the pictures I've taken with 120 film and read a street sign that was over two city blocks away...my digital camera can't come anywhere near that.

I've got a notebook full of my 120 and 35mm negatives and 2 notebooks completely full of pictures I've developed...real silver prints from an enlarger.

And I'm not some old guy longing for the past either. I just turned 30 recently. Up until about a year ago, I used mostly point and shoot digital cameras. The only film cameras I used when I was a kid was just cheap point and shoot cameras and disposable cameras. I started collecting vintage cameras just because I had a fascination with old mechanical cameras...then I wanted to actually learn how to use them. I learned how to develop my own B&W film in March, and then I set up a darkroom in the garage. Ever since then, I've had so much fun with it that I hardly ever use my digital camera. This really does feel more like REAL photography. Film is so much more creative and rewarding.

I've been around computers my whole life...but I don't do Photoshop. So it's not just old people who are nostalgic. I'm on a photography website and there are a LOT of people who develop film and prints at home. It's more popular than you think. In fact, I know of a 17 year old kid that shoots in large format film. There really is just something special about film.

Yes. I still process and print with chemicals. It's not that I am afraid of digital, I am professional digital retoucher. I just prefer the tonal range and look of a silver based print.

Yes, I do, as well as a couple friends of mine. It's a very fun, hands-on process!

yup! i use it for a photo class.