Photographic Enlargers: Timers

Video Transcript

"One thing about when you start to print in here, you are going to quickly see that this really is, as much as this is an art form, it is a science too. And your print, how your final print will look, depends so much upon how much time you expose your print for. So, I have a couple of different timers here that I use in this darkroom. This is a Gralab digital timer. It is incredibly accurate. It goes up to one-tenth of a second to what I want for my exposure time. And, you know, when I first started doing photography I thought, one-tenth of a second, that is ridiculous. That is too accurate. But, the more you get into it, you really see that that will actually make a huge difference in your final print. This timer is a great timer as well. Not as accurate, but it is a analog timer essentially. Same kind of timer I used when I was developing film. It will work and it will work pretty well. The one thing I discourage people from doing is using their stopwatch or counting one-one thousand, two-one thousand. You really want to keep it as accurate in here as possible."