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	CoMAD's photographic facilities occupy the entire fourth floor of the Academic Building, located at the corner of 33rd and Arch Streets. Completed in 1990, to coincide with the introduction of CoMAD's photography major, this facility has two main darkroom areas, and a large shooting studio. It is one of the most comprehensive photographic facilities on the east coast.
In addition, digital-imaging courses are supported by the program's state-of-the-art computer labs, equipped with Macintosh workstations, Epson 1680scanners, Nikon Cool Scan film scanners, Imacon Flextight scanners and Epson 1280, 2200 and 7600 inkjet printers. In addition, we have Nikon and Fuji FinePix S2A digital cameras as well as PhaseOne digital backs for our large format cameras.
	The introductory darkroom has sixteen enlarging stations for black and white printing, as well as film-processing and finishing areas; it is dedicated to introductory and intermediate photography classes and is open to all CoMAD students interested in photography. The advanced darkroom suite is for photography majors past their freshman year and any students taking advanced photography courses. It has fifteen large-format enlarging stations for printing color and black and white photography, formats up to 4x5. These enlargers are in individual rooms for privacy, and to allow simultaneous printing of color and black and white. The advanced area also has six individual darkrooms for senior use. These rooms have individual 4x5 color-head enlargers, sinks with temperature controls, and print-drying racks; they provide complete privacy and let students work uninterrupted on projects that extend over several terms; and central to the advanced lab is our 26-inch Colex RA-4 color-print processor and industry-standard evaluation area
The program supplies students with check-out equipment -- virtually everything necessary even for advanced classes. Among the items are Toyo-View 4x5 cameras, with a variety of lenses, Hasselblad 6x6 studio cameras with 50mm, 80mm, 120 and 150mm lenses, and variety of other large-format and medium-format cameras. Our studio is equally well outfitted: there are Speedotron power packs ranging from 800 to 4800 watt seconds, Lowel hot lights, soft boxes and reflectors and all the necessary lighting equipment for complex studio setups.