![]() ![]() It is a 6x9cm enlarger with two color densitometers (one reading negatives and one positives) that was capable of self-calibrating and auto-correcting color prints from negatives and slides. What the hell is an AC800?Īn AC800 was pretty much the last thing before minilabs. ![]() This is best I could come up with via trial and error. More than 20 years after production, it’s unlikely that your unit will hold its settings unplugged for more than a day or two. But since it’s probably unlikely that you (or the previous owner) ever correctly understood the Allemainglish directions, you’re not losing much. The AC800 series used a soldered-in Nicad to hold its memory settings. J.Ok, you bought a Durst AC800 or AC800 Elite for black and white work – so now what? The good news is that your unit’s memory is probably blank. Something, anything, in the direction of the objective is better than no progress at all. Mix up and store some solution is one way to prep for a later session. I have found, though, that when the darkroom gets bogged down there are only two cures: cleanup the lab space and develop another roll of film. If that ever happens, my concierge will let you know. If only we could just make the print, package it, and hand it to King Midas, the client. But, if it's not done, that's just one more avenue to the customer that will remain closed. It's very easy to burn ten hours hacking on this ridiculous keyboard. At one point I had to go in there and make a few prints just to work on something else. So, yes, I, too, am missing the darkroom. ![]() Maybe in a few weeks I'll be ready to really get it out there and do a better job of competing. I ended up having to hack out many computer application conflicts and specifics that required additional coordination. I got the page load times down to a third of what the basic version had. ![]() Since then, I've had maybe four distinct subsequent versions pushed through the computer. The website that's open to the public now is a basic version that I made a few weeks ago. Over the past month, I have worked on building up my own little online store to help market my photographs. I have had a similar problem with digital lately it hasn't been the digicams, but the web publishing that I have found to be very time consuming. I love my film cameras and love using my darkroom kit. ![]()
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