In message , alan_m
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On 19/09/2015 16:54, Chris French wrote:
Eldest daughter (14) is very much getting into photography. Digital of
course, but she likes the idea of having a play with film.

IMO, the best thing that happened to photography was digital.

Quite :-)

Your daughter is likely to abandon the idea after processing a few
rolls of film and finding from the 70 shots she has only got a few
usable images worthy off taking through the printing stage for an
enlarged image.

With digital there is no cost in taking a 1000 bad shots and then
deleting them from the SD card.

For film I used to go under the stairs in the dark for 5 minutes to
load it onto the spiral for the developing tank. Afterwards developing
etc. is in full light, usually at the kitchen sink.

For the enlarger and developing trays you need a flat surface. You
don't particularity need running water in the dark room. By the time
the photo needs to be rinsed in running water it's already developed
and fixed so it can be transferred to the kitchen sink in full light.


So any pointers/suggestions for setting it up are welcome. something at
least semi permanent would be preferable I think, and we have a few
places that might be suitable. What is the essentials, what would be nice.

don't want to spend to much money as it might be a bit of a flash in the
pan.

Don't go to too much trouble until you find out that its a fad, or not.
The first experiments could be done in the kitchen etc. in
autumn/winter evening when its dark outside using minimal balckouts
over the windowsnight

No I'm quite aware that it might be a fad.

My best bets seem to be using the cellar or maybe the utility room - I
could probably blackout the windows easily, and as we don't use the room
for anything other than washing clothes and storing stuff etc. I could
leave it up for periods of time.

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Chris French