Facilities
The Moorpark College Digital Photography Lab has all the latest technology needed to photograph and print in the digital age, but we also have a darkroom and film processing area if you want to learn the old way.
STANDARD EQUIPMENT:
- Eighteen Apple computer workstations
- Six Film and Flatbed Scanners
- Four professional large format inkjet printers, one of which can make prints up to 44-inches wide prints
CAMERA AND LENSES:
- Canon Digital SLR Cameras and lenses
- Medium format digital back for a Hasselblad and a laptop computer for tethered location photography
- Wide range of film cameras available for student use including 35mm , medium format , and large format view cameras.
PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO:
- Necessary materials for professional studio photographs including portraiture, product, fashion, and still life
- Profoto, Speedotron and Bowens strobe systems
- C-stands, sandbags, flags and cutters, soft boxes and backdrops
DARKROOM:
- Black and White Darkroom with 15 Saunders LPL, variable contrast, 4x5 enlargers, with a 4-bladed adjustable easel, a digital timers and Nikkor lenses
- Black and White facilities include archival print washers, an RC print processor, and racks for drying fiber paper
FILM SINK:
- Chemistry for processing any B+W film
- Standard D-76 developer
- Specialty developers such as HC-110, Rodinal or T-Max developer.
- Jobo rotary film processor, capable of processing 6 rolls of 35mm, 5 rolls of 120, or 12 sheets of 4x5 film at a time.
PRINT FINISHING AREA:
-Rototrim paper cutters
-Seal Dry mount presses
-Fletcher bevel mat cutter.
STANDARD EQUIPMENT:
- Eighteen Apple computer workstations
- Six Film and Flatbed Scanners
- Four professional large format inkjet printers, one of which can make prints up to 44-inches wide prints
CAMERA AND LENSES:
- Canon Digital SLR Cameras and lenses
- Medium format digital back for a Hasselblad and a laptop computer for tethered location photography
- Wide range of film cameras available for student use including 35mm , medium format , and large format view cameras.
PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO:
- Necessary materials for professional studio photographs including portraiture, product, fashion, and still life
- Profoto, Speedotron and Bowens strobe systems
- C-stands, sandbags, flags and cutters, soft boxes and backdrops
DARKROOM:
- Black and White Darkroom with 15 Saunders LPL, variable contrast, 4x5 enlargers, with a 4-bladed adjustable easel, a digital timers and Nikkor lenses
- Black and White facilities include archival print washers, an RC print processor, and racks for drying fiber paper
FILM SINK:
- Chemistry for processing any B+W film
- Standard D-76 developer
- Specialty developers such as HC-110, Rodinal or T-Max developer.
- Jobo rotary film processor, capable of processing 6 rolls of 35mm, 5 rolls of 120, or 12 sheets of 4x5 film at a time.
PRINT FINISHING AREA:
-Rototrim paper cutters
-Seal Dry mount presses
-Fletcher bevel mat cutter.