Today I went into the darkroom to begin (what I thought would be a painstaking process of) putting them together. In there for a couple hours but managed to assemble 12 of them which were, exactly as Mike had said a few days ago, “in fantastic condition”. Ie also found all the paper trays, safe…
Here’s the thing about chemistry in high school. I flunked it. BADLY. I wasn’t very good at it because it didn’t interest me and, since I had my mind made up that I was going to become an artist, I was convinced that I would never need to learn that “dihydrogen monoxide kills 380,000 people…
I met with Michael from Mike’s Quality Camera and Mr. Boucher in the darkroom today. I learned a great deal about how well-maintained the equipment that was left behind was and some basic pointers about the flow of the darkroom. All the enlargers were in pieces but they were covered in plastic bags and basically…