RE: Making pinholes without a darkroom?

Hello Ric,
I was showing the boys that it could be done, which was one reason, the
other was to see if I could do it. I am also the "Leave No Trace"
instructor for our troop and it would not look good to scouts if I was
extremely careful about discarding "dishwater" then dumped chemicals. :-)
Just trying to set a better example. :-)

I'm glad you asked. One other reason was to be able to see if I was trying
good exposures times. I shoot by intuition, look at the light conditions
and try to make a somewhat educated guess from past experience. Most of the
time I am right on, sometimes I am waaaay off. I've carried home [8] 35mm
canister pinhole cameras only to discover I under exposed them all.
:-0

So if I am trying to get that "nice" shot from the camping trip, if I
develop them there I know I have a viable negative and maybe spark the
interest of a scout who is later interested in Photography Merit Badge. I
have several past scouts who are now professional photographers from taking
part in one of my informal camp demo's. Being a teacher that give me more
reward than anything.

I thought with the current thread, my experiments might give some other
people an idea to pursue in their own way or consider a minimal darkroom.
I've already gotten one idea I hadn't thought of: to carry a few pieces of
prepared cyanotype paper.

On one last note, somewhere I had heard or read about photo journalists
during the war developing their film along streams in their helmets. I
thought about some of those amazing photos and thought it might be a fun
challenge for me minus the bullets, bombs etc. :-)

Take Care,
Chuck

*My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I
am. -Unknown *

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
[mailto:owner-pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org]On Behalf Of Ricardo
Wildberger Lisboa
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 11:57 AM
To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
Subject: RES: [pinhole-discussion] Making pinholes without a darkroom?

Chuck

If you don't print while camping, but when you're back home, why don't you
leave it to develop the film also at home, being able so to pack lighter
and avoid disposal problems (and saving space and risk of wetting your
backpack with chemicals), specially if the development is done in a
changing bag, where nobody but you is with hands on? Really excuse me if all
that is not my business, but I just got curious. Are there any reasons I'm
not grasping now or educational motives (like having the boys involved in
the process, taking into account environmental aspects of it and having a
minimum result to show, or beyond) or what? Thank you,

Ric.

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