When I did darkroom work, I often processed and printed from transparencies or slides. Because of the expense of large scale, high quality, digital prints at the commercial labs (when larger than poster) I am thinking of trying to use a high definition digital projector instead of an enlarger to do the exposure and do the darkroom processing of the large print. The size of the enlarger needed is also a consideration since I am able to get a wider spread at shorter distance with a projector. Using the projector would allow post processing to be used and a final product delivered with much higher effectiveness rather than burning/dodging and spot color corrections during paper exposure. Since in PP software, it is also often possible to flip the color to negative, should probably also be able to print on regular paper for printing negatives.

Not sure of a couple of things though - color balance of the projector using various high intensity bulbs and color calibration for the photopapers. I think I could set up a color profile in lightroom and refine it with trial and error but still don't remember enough about the paper requiring a specific K value.

Has anyone tried to use a projector to replace an enlarger in the darkroom ?

I have the Canon EOS Rebel K2 SLR film camera in my sights. Used, of course. There are a lot of them at both Ebay & Amazon so -- if I go for this one -- I will have to do a lot of research to raise the odds of buying one in good condition.

There are 2 zoom lens options that interest me -- 28-80mm & 28-90mm. both f3.5-5.6 The spec say that the 80 uses a USM motor to drive the autofocus whereas the 90 uses a DC motor (I have no idea what this means.)


ADVICE PLEASE..... 😇
1- was this a really good camera in its day?
2- if so, which of the 2 zoom lenses should I go for?

I am on the fence about this and would like to here what your plans or thoughts on this matter are.
Nikon has announced there mirrorless camera and as expected it will not be f mount, it will be a new mount, so in order to use your f mounts we will need an adapter, I for 1 am not a fan of adapters.
We all see this trend of the phase out of dslr for mirrorless cameras, it could take some years but regardless it may happen.
I am heavily invested in f mount and was wanting to add another lens, although I start to feel that it is a poor investment for the future of my photography, if I new Nikon was not going to eventually phase out the f mount for there new mirrorless I would be fine with it.
Do you think Nikon will keep both mirrorless and dslr,s in production in the future? I would appreciate input on this.
Thank you