Thank you for sharing!

As a child in 62, I bought a very cheap photo developing kit. Went into a closet and loaded the plastic tank and ran the chemicals through it. I did everything wrong, but it worked. Wish I had saved those first contact photos.

Processing one's own film was still a part of the job when I first started working for community newspapers. When I left the business, film had gone the way of the Linotype machine.

enjoy those smells in an X-ray lab.
A few years later when I was 15 I bought an enlarger and made money producing fake IDs for the local college kids.
Have a boring life now.

excellent use of photography skills!

How lucky you saved all of that.

Thank you!

Some of my family photos are more than 100 years old. I've photographed the oldest for preservation. In order to preserve all of the collection I'll need a scanner that will digitize prints, negatives, slides, and home movies.

Box cameras were great. Fixed focus, fixed aperture, fixed shutter speed, and B&W film with a lot of latitude. Just stand eight feed away from your subject and use a flash inside. That worked for everything.