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That was very interesting! Thanks for sharing!
I’ve wanted to do my own developing and printing. But now, we have a house with a septic system and from what I’ve researched, developing chemicals are harmful to septic systems.
I continue to shoot film with two Canon cameras; I added a DLSR in 2013.
A blast from the past. I was a custom color printer back in the 70’s. It was a rewarding line of work. I’m so glad photoshop and digital photography replaced the darkroom. Same rewards no chemicals and working in the dark.
Wow! It’s fascinating to see how pretty much everything in technology is digital version of another older (and often natural) process… The way R, G, B pixels capture light like our R, G, B cones in our retina or how everything digital is, at base, 1 (on) and 0 (off) like the electrical pulses that are going on in out bodies, etc…
Brings back some fond old memories…
It was such a privilege to have had the experience of being a pre-digital photographer…your great video brought back great memories…though I don’t think I’ll set up a darkroom again, I fondly remember the smells of the chemicals, the counting the exposure in my head, dodging and burning, worrying about the focus of the enlarger, the shock of the light after I finished a processing session…lol…30 years ago like it was yesterday. A great vid – thank you!