On 21/09/15 02:53, Nick Odell wrote:
On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 21:18:32 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

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.

It won't last five minutes. Do the minimum. At 14 they have very short
lived interests. When my eldest came home from school (having been got
at by some damn fool teacher) and demanded a darkroom I set her up in
the upstairs bathroom. Blacked out the window after a fashion and told
her to only open film cans when it had gone dark outside. I think she
used the set up all of twice.

Just a flash in the pan?

When I came home from school, aged 14 and announced that I wanted to
make an electric guitar, who would have guessed that it would just be
a passing phase that would last fifty-two years (so far).

When, aged about 12, my eldest wanted to spend the summer holidays
learning to paddle a kayak, who would have guessed that he'd turn it
into a career that would take him everywhere from Nepal to the Grand
Canyon (so far)?

Nick


One shoudl be encouraging and pragmatic.

When my son asked to get a guitar, we got a cheap box'o'rubberbands off
ebay and said, if he made progress, we'd get him a real guitar.

A couple of years or so later he's passed Grade 1 with Distinction (we
got him a decent guitar within the first year as he was so so consistent
about practising).

So back to the OP.

I'd go with what another poster suggested - start with film only which
needs a few trays, bag and tank.

If that persists, go to black and white printing with a makeshift
darkroom - B&W is a lot less fussy (red safelight, chemicals less fussy).

You never know...