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Subject: [Leica] So do I sell the darkroom?
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu Aug 4 05:26:04 2005

Store it safely and when your son hits 6, give him his first simple camera
with some B&W in it and show him the magic of an image appearing on a white
sheet of photopaper.
If he doesn't bite, just make another son :-)


> From: Vick Ko <vick.ko@sympatico.ca>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 07:50:42 -0400
> To: <Leica-Users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Subject: [Leica] So do I sell the darkroom?
> 
> So do I sell the darkroom?
> 
> My son is 4 years old in 2 weeks.
> 
> My last darkroom excursion was months before he was born, and a partial
> reason was that my wife was concerned with the chemicals during
> pregnancy, printing some Ilfochrome.  The darkroom then became the
> nursing room.  It is also our TV room.
> 
> It is a beautiful setup, good up to 4x5 but I only shoot MF, and 35mm
> (lots of Leica - on topic!).
> 
> But - unused for 4 years?  It is edging towards the "selling block".
> Packing and shipping it intimidates me.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vick Ko
> 
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