He’s in love with the process and the look of wet-plate. It’s not an equipment issue - he just really wants to do historical photography. (He has a vauge idea of turning a profit at Civil War reenactments and such, but really it’s a personal hobby.) He’s building a case, and he’s got a respirator. I don’t know about his plans to dispose of the chemicals, but I’m sure he’s thought it out - he didn’t just pick this up on a whim or anything, he really has done a lot of research. He’s just trying to steal my damned vanilla bottle, is all, and I don’t wanna give it to him.
I didn’t mean to imply he was going to be haphazard- just making suggestions based on my experiences with the noxious stuff of standard paper-print b&w.
Hope he has a blast at it !
Oh, he already is. His enthusiasm is driving me bonkers.
We artists. We’re like that.
( Hey, you married him !! )
I just want to jump in and say: Tell him to join the 20th century! Hasn’t he ever heard of D-76?
(D-76, of course, is the name of the Kodak developing chemicals, and the catch-all name of the related processes for black-and-white film developing, one of the favored hobbies of old-fashioned photographers everywhere).
I did not! (Er, yet. It hasn’t come up.)
–gulp-- Oh.
Uh. Sorry. Didn’t mean to push things along like that.
Just don’t give my mother any ideas!
You’re such a geek !
Hey, do they have that on a T-shirt?
I don’t get it.