On Saturday, 19 September 2015 18:29:33 UTC+1, alan_m wrote:
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. 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.

Yup.

Don't go to too much trouble until you find out that its a fad, or not.

^^^^^^^^^ This!