The RA-4 Colour Diaries Part One
My goal for 2025 was to teach myself to make colour optical prints in the darkroom, a goal that actually started in 2020 after I read an article on the Emulsive website about RA-4 printing. I already had a Durst M601 enlarger with a colour head that I’d never used, so I didn’t need much more to try it myself. Having not much else to do, I checked our ebay for a paper drum. I found a Patterson Thermo-Drum 1216 in the UK for a reasonable price (shipping hadn’t yet gone through the roof) and ordered it. Unfortunately, once it...
