Today I had a “Mortimer moment”
Still Life with cocoa cola glass, GraLab timer with smokes and paraphernalia placed on green/blue flight case
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Still Life with cocoa cola glass, GraLab timer with smokes and paraphernalia placed on green/blue flight case
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January 15, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Today I had a “Mortimer moment”
Still Life with cocoa cola glass, GraLab timer with smokes and paraphernalia placed on green/blue flight case
@richardmortimer.bsky.social
Still Life with cocoa cola glass, GraLab timer with smokes and paraphernalia placed on green/blue flight case
@richardmortimer.bsky.social
just looking at this picture brings up visceral memories
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July 11, 2024 at 7:10 PM
just looking at this picture brings up visceral memories
Just in: it's "Time" to build your own darkroom....... "Gralab Darkroom Timer Model 300," I mean! 😂
Gralab Darkroom Timer Model 300
It seems that Gralab calls every timer the "Model 300," because this Model 300 is clearly not the classic all-black Model 300. It's smaller, for one, with a grey plastic shell and a moulded-in carry h...
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July 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Just in: it's "Time" to build your own darkroom....... "Gralab Darkroom Timer Model 300," I mean! 😂
Darkroom-in-a-closet, 1983.
#photography #bw #monochrome #film #Pentax #Gralab #enlarger #timer #safelight #filmphotography #bwphotography #printing #developing #Quebec #Limoilou
#photography #bw #monochrome #film #Pentax #Gralab #enlarger #timer #safelight #filmphotography #bwphotography #printing #developing #Quebec #Limoilou
March 18, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Darkroom-in-a-closet, 1983.
#photography #bw #monochrome #film #Pentax #Gralab #enlarger #timer #safelight #filmphotography #bwphotography #printing #developing #Quebec #Limoilou
#photography #bw #monochrome #film #Pentax #Gralab #enlarger #timer #safelight #filmphotography #bwphotography #printing #developing #Quebec #Limoilou
Doing a little GraLab audio therapy RN
I don't think the background hum is being picked up well enough but maybe it's one of those IYKYK
#believeinfilm
I don't think the background hum is being picked up well enough but maybe it's one of those IYKYK
#believeinfilm
June 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Doing a little GraLab audio therapy RN
I don't think the background hum is being picked up well enough but maybe it's one of those IYKYK
#believeinfilm
I don't think the background hum is being picked up well enough but maybe it's one of those IYKYK
#believeinfilm
(Google tells me it was made by "Gralab")
July 11, 2024 at 7:07 PM
(Google tells me it was made by "Gralab")
Just in: Do you like beige plastic cases, old computer switches with cryptic labels, and multisegment LED displays? Of course you do, I've just described 90% of this website's userbase. Now, if you're also looking for a darkroom timer, we've got just the thing for you.
Gralab Darkroom Timer Model 520
The Gralab Model 520 is a digital timer with an off-white plastic housing, big, fun-to-push buttons and a red LED display. Looks and feels like an old Amiga accessory, works like a darkroom timer: for...
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March 26, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Just in: Do you like beige plastic cases, old computer switches with cryptic labels, and multisegment LED displays? Of course you do, I've just described 90% of this website's userbase. Now, if you're also looking for a darkroom timer, we've got just the thing for you.
A small #MenderRevealParty win for Saturday night tinkering:
Opened my grandfathers Ricoh Diacord up to diagnose a problem with the aperture dial. It was an easy fix! Little light cleaning too, and it’s working again. Confirmed via instax test!
#BelieveInFilm
Opened my grandfathers Ricoh Diacord up to diagnose a problem with the aperture dial. It was an easy fix! Little light cleaning too, and it’s working again. Confirmed via instax test!
#BelieveInFilm
February 22, 2026 at 6:12 AM
A small #MenderRevealParty win for Saturday night tinkering:
Opened my grandfathers Ricoh Diacord up to diagnose a problem with the aperture dial. It was an easy fix! Little light cleaning too, and it’s working again. Confirmed via instax test!
#BelieveInFilm
Opened my grandfathers Ricoh Diacord up to diagnose a problem with the aperture dial. It was an easy fix! Little light cleaning too, and it’s working again. Confirmed via instax test!
#BelieveInFilm
Today I had a “Mortimer moment”
Still Life with cocoa cola glass, GraLab timer, smokes, air freshener, cable modem, android phone and salt lamp glow.
@richardmortimer.bsky.social
Still Life with cocoa cola glass, GraLab timer, smokes, air freshener, cable modem, android phone and salt lamp glow.
@richardmortimer.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Today I had a “Mortimer moment”
Still Life with cocoa cola glass, GraLab timer, smokes, air freshener, cable modem, android phone and salt lamp glow.
@richardmortimer.bsky.social
Still Life with cocoa cola glass, GraLab timer, smokes, air freshener, cable modem, android phone and salt lamp glow.
@richardmortimer.bsky.social
You should get the giant Gralab timer!
October 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
You should get the giant Gralab timer!
I have many older cameras and mechanical devices, but for electrical devices I use regularly I think:
This Dual 1225 turntable (from ~73?) sitting on the shelf above my work computer, and my Omega D-2 (c. 60s-70s). (The gralab 168 is decades older too, though!).
This Dual 1225 turntable (from ~73?) sitting on the shelf above my work computer, and my Omega D-2 (c. 60s-70s). (The gralab 168 is decades older too, though!).
September 16, 2023 at 5:01 AM
I have many older cameras and mechanical devices, but for electrical devices I use regularly I think:
This Dual 1225 turntable (from ~73?) sitting on the shelf above my work computer, and my Omega D-2 (c. 60s-70s). (The gralab 168 is decades older too, though!).
This Dual 1225 turntable (from ~73?) sitting on the shelf above my work computer, and my Omega D-2 (c. 60s-70s). (The gralab 168 is decades older too, though!).
Today I had a “Mortimer moment”
Still Life with cocoa cola glass, GraLab timer, smokes, air freshener, cable modem, android phone and salt lamp glow.
Still Life with cocoa cola glass, GraLab timer, smokes, air freshener, cable modem, android phone and salt lamp glow.
January 15, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Today I had a “Mortimer moment”
Still Life with cocoa cola glass, GraLab timer, smokes, air freshener, cable modem, android phone and salt lamp glow.
Still Life with cocoa cola glass, GraLab timer, smokes, air freshener, cable modem, android phone and salt lamp glow.
Engineer: "Hey boss, we built the new smaller, grey, plastic timer to supplement our larger, black, metal Model 300. What should we call it?"
Boss: "Model 300"
Engineer: "But how will people tell them apart?"
Boss: [golfs]
Boss: "Model 300"
Engineer: "But how will people tell them apart?"
Boss: [golfs]
Gralab Darkroom Timer Model 300
It seems that Gralab calls every timer the "Model 300," because this Model 300 is clearly not the classic all-black Model 300. It's smaller, for one, with a grey plastic shell and a moulded-in carry h...
www.camera-traders.com
November 16, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Engineer: "Hey boss, we built the new smaller, grey, plastic timer to supplement our larger, black, metal Model 300. What should we call it?"
Boss: "Model 300"
Engineer: "But how will people tell them apart?"
Boss: [golfs]
Boss: "Model 300"
Engineer: "But how will people tell them apart?"
Boss: [golfs]
Good news! My detailed safelight shows that my safelight setup is good to go. The A strip is with safelight exposure after being exposed. B is before being exposed. I see no gradations or fogging around the border. The exposures are as close as I can get with an old GraLab at 1 second.
March 17, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Good news! My detailed safelight shows that my safelight setup is good to go. The A strip is with safelight exposure after being exposed. B is before being exposed. I see no gradations or fogging around the border. The exposures are as close as I can get with an old GraLab at 1 second.
I've always used a GraLab darkroom timer with glow-in-the-dark numbering. Hit it with a flashlight before unloading film holders and faint glow will be visible for development times up to 20 minutes.
June 21, 2026 at 1:17 PM
I've always used a GraLab darkroom timer with glow-in-the-dark numbering. Hit it with a flashlight before unloading film holders and faint glow will be visible for development times up to 20 minutes.
Cool! Probably capacitors. I have an old school Time-O-Lite and a GraLab 300. I figured even if this is a little off it’s at least repeatable. 🤷♂️
I think k I have $30-35 in it including all the replacement electronics
I think k I have $30-35 in it including all the replacement electronics
August 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Cool! Probably capacitors. I have an old school Time-O-Lite and a GraLab 300. I figured even if this is a little off it’s at least repeatable. 🤷♂️
I think k I have $30-35 in it including all the replacement electronics
I think k I have $30-35 in it including all the replacement electronics
DOH!
I completely forgot my kitchen timer has a glow-in-the-dark face
🫣
I completely forgot my kitchen timer has a glow-in-the-dark face
🫣
January 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
DOH!
I completely forgot my kitchen timer has a glow-in-the-dark face
🫣
I completely forgot my kitchen timer has a glow-in-the-dark face
🫣
of that there were 3 aristo cold lights, one was the VC head, a metrolux timer, about a half dozen Gralab 300s, 500 series also. 2 Thomas duplexes. Kodak process therm, densitometer. a lot of ss lab ware. I had a Gravity Works archival film washer also.
August 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
of that there were 3 aristo cold lights, one was the VC head, a metrolux timer, about a half dozen Gralab 300s, 500 series also. 2 Thomas duplexes. Kodak process therm, densitometer. a lot of ss lab ware. I had a Gravity Works archival film washer also.
I still use an old GraLab timer, so my timings aren't precise, but they're good enough for my purposes.
October 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I still use an old GraLab timer, so my timings aren't precise, but they're good enough for my purposes.
yup, but its still a big step up on using a regular old Gralab: "OK, gotta do that last exposure again... wait... how many seconds was I doing?!?? was it 10????.... shit."🥶😅🤦♂️
August 7, 2026 at 6:16 PM
yup, but its still a big step up on using a regular old Gralab: "OK, gotta do that last exposure again... wait... how many seconds was I doing?!?? was it 10????.... shit."🥶😅🤦♂️