D22_001814 Johnson Exactum Combined Printer and Darkroom Lamp

Item Reference: 001814
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Johnsons ‘Exactum’ combined printer and darkroom lamp, in an original box packaging with an instructional pamphlet, and a sachet of printing masks. It is a varnished wooden box with a chamber for a bulb that acts both as a safelight and exposure, with a knob used to create this exposure.
Date: c. 1949
Further Information: 
Links: Detailing the Exactum as part of ‘Johnsons No. 4 Developing and Printing Outfit’

Johnson exactum contact printer and darkroom lamp box, showing label clearly — D22_001814_1

Johnson exactum contact printer and darkroom lamp box, which is still intact. box is brown cardboard stapled together around the side with matching lid — D22_001814_2

the exactum out of its box, displaying its dark brown wood with varnish — D22_001814_3

exactum with holders for film open — D22_001814_4

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side of view of the exactum displaying small opening in the wood which is covered by red fabric, to limit exposure of naked light during the printing process — D22_001814_6

side on view of the exactum printer displaying opening covered with red tinted glass so as to limit exposure to naked light during the developing process — D22_001814_7

back of exactum printer showing a round role for the power lead and the knob to open the back hatch to get inside the exactum — D22_001814_8

exactum printer with back panel removed — D22_001814_9

close up of upper alcove of the exactum printer — D22_001814_10

packaging for johnsons see thru printing masks that accompanied the exactum — D22_001814_12

3 red printing masks of varying cut-out sizes — D22_001814_13

original instructions for the exactum — D22_001814_14