No argument! But it was fun to have experienced it; in my case starting photography as a hobby and going digital were just over a decade apart. Favourite part was being able to extract the coiled film from the tank in full light and peer at the negatives for the first time and then making a contact print sheet. Making enlarged prints was relative drudgery.
TLDR: The first one is about using a 20-year-past-expiry film in a format I didn't otherwise use; the second is about developing a drenched E6 slide film in b&w chemistry and trying to get prints.
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i don't think i've ever known anything as magical as developing my first wet-photography print.
I have done darkroom work some 35 years ago and I can only say how relieved I am that we've moved into a world of digital sensors.
No argument! But it was fun to have experienced it; in my case starting photography as a hobby and going digital were just over a decade apart. Favourite part was being able to extract the coiled film from the tank in full light and peer at the negatives for the first time and then making a contact print sheet. Making enlarged prints was relative drudgery.
It was magical, wasn't it? A couple of film photo adventures on my old cobwebsite...
https://wandel.ca/homepage/yashicamat.html
https://wandel.ca/homepage/wetcamera.html
TLDR: The first one is about using a 20-year-past-expiry film in a format I didn't otherwise use; the second is about developing a drenched E6 slide film in b&w chemistry and trying to get prints.