Facilities & Equipment

EquipmentThe Watkins Photography department is among the best equipped and outfitted of any program, with superior quality and an expansive inventory of resources as well as generous policies for student use.

Students are required to purchase a DSLR camera that shoots in RAW format.

Available for check-out:

• Hasselblad and Bronica medium format cameras, Mamiya and Pentax lenses, & Polaroid backs
• 4x5 view & field cameras, lenses, tripods, and changing bags
• Canon and Nikon Pro-digital cameras
• Tungsten and strobe lighting kits and accessories for studio and location work
• sx-70 camera for alternative work
• Canon GL1 and GL2 digital video cameras
• Zoom digital recorder
• Flip HD video recorders

Facilities

• Darkroom  with 15 enlargers and two island sinks
• Three individual film loading & processing rooms
• Wet area for archival washing and drying prints
• Dry area for viewing negatives and prints, complete with light boxes, dry mount presses, matte cutter, and densitometer
• A large lighting studio, complete with strobe & tungsten equipment, soft boxes, booms, camera stands, backdrop material and other accessories for studio work (room is available for reservation in four-hour blocks of time for students)
• Digital imaging lab with state-of-the art Mac computers (OS-X operating system)
• Four large format Epson archival ink jet printers
• Three Epson Stylus Pro archival inkjet printers
• Hasselblad Flextight XI film scanner
• Epson flatbed scanners
• UV exposure units for alternative printmaking
• Jobo processors
• H25 Hasselblad digital back and Toyo 4x5 adaptor for high-resolution digital capture