The college paper I worked at had a darkroom and upon graduation I had a home darkroom for 4 years, stuffed into various apartment closets. Honestly it’s kinda of a pain, there is the enlarger (not cheap), the timer, chemicals (the fixer I think was somewhat nasty). Then you look at the prints after they’ve dried and you notice the dust spots.

Not to mention the fact that the negative contains more dynamic range than the print, so often your dodging and burning the image to adjust.

Though I miss the magic of a photo appearing on a piece of paper when printing, I kinda don’t miss a lot about the process.

After college darkrooms, I briefly setup my old home darkroom in a downstairs half-bath. It just wasn't worth it and, to tell the truth, I was probably a bit burned out on photography at that point.

I continued to shoot slides on trips but it wasn't until I got into digital photography that I really fully got back into it.

The best part of shooting transparencies is not being tempted to pull "one more print" to fix something you missed in the last 6 prints :-P

Yep. Like shooting JPEG (instead of RAW) in your digital camera.