Facilities and Equipment

Equipment
• Students are required to have their own manual (or automatic with manual features) 35-mm camera.

• The department has advanced equipment available for check-out:
- Tanks, reels, graduates, and other items for film processing
- Hasselblad medium format cameras, lenses, & Polaroid back
- 4x5 view cameras, lenses, tripods, Polaroid back, changing bags
- Tungsten and strobe lighting equipment for studio and location work (and paraphernalia associated with lighting classes)
- sx-70 camera for alternative work
- Daylab processor for alternative work

Large Print Room . . . . . . . . . .

Facilities
The facility is one large space housing the b&w and color print rooms and b&w film processing rooms, lighting studio, and wet & dry areas for archival wash/dry, viewing negatives, spotting, and matting prints, an equipment checkout room, and the chemical room.

• One large print room for beginning photography students with 12 enlargers and two island sinks.

• Three individual film loading & processing rooms.

• Five individual black and white print rooms with 8’SS sink for advanced students (students my reserve space for 4-hour blocks of time).

• Four individual color print rooms (students may reserve space for a 4-hour block of time).

• A color print processor capable of 30” wide print.

• A large lighting studio, complete with strobe & tungsten equipment, softboxes, booms, camera stands, backdrop material and other accessories for studio work. (This room is available for reservation in 4-hour blocks of time for students).

• Digital imaging lab with state-of-the art Mac labs (OS-X operating system) and software: (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.)

• Wet area for archival washing and drying prints.

• Dry area for viewing negatives and prints, complete with light boxes, drymount presses, matte cutter, and densitometer.