On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:42:01 +0200, Thomas Prufer
wrote:

On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:54:42 +0100, Chris French
wrote:

Someone on the local Freecycle was offering a load of darkroom gear,
which I've acquired. And I've rooted out my old film SLR. So now need to
construct some sort of darkroom space.

Once you've got that, have a look at pinhole cameras. These can use photo paper
as "film", and that makes the dark requirement a lot less stringent. And it's
something different from digital.

(I was impressed by some long-term exposures of the ocean -- the motion averages
out over time, and the water looks perfectly flat.)

For chemicals, look at "nonstandard developers". Quick google gave
http://www.caffenol.org/, with suggestions such as cheap beer, coffee, beet
juice and other developers which sound like they won't break the bank.


Thomas Prufer

Its worth mentioning that the next WPPD is on 24th April 2016.
http://pinholeday.org/

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Graham.

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