Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Hotel room film processing
From: CHARLES STIRK JR C <ccstirkjr@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:12:22 -0700 (PDT)

On traveling with chemistry , you just haven't lived until
a leaky fixer gets all over your shorts in transit , oh
that smell , it was a warm spring eve in Lima .....
Chuck 

 --- "John R. Fulton Jr." <JRFjr@compuserve.com> wrote:
> Setting up in a hotel room is worth it for the expression
> on the 
> chambermaid's face when they knock on your door, you open
> it, and 
> they look in. They smell the smell. They see the black
> plastic over 
> the windows. And you hand them a bunch of wet towels with
> yellow 
> stains on them. You tell them all you need are clean
> towels and thank 
> you very much.
> Talkabout "priceless".
> John Fulton
> Fort Worth
> PS--The toilet is often referred to as a place to wash
> film. 
> Actually, it's a great place to set the enlarger.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >Motel bathroom colour processing can be fun...
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "B.Entus" <brutus@mda.ca>
> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> >Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 12:36 PM
> >Subject: [Leica] Hotel room film processing
> >
> >
> >>  I remember an article by W Eugene Smith which
> described how in Minamata
> >>  in the winter he processed film without temperature
> control and dried it
> >using
> >>  heat from a wood fire. Or about Weegee processing in
> the back of  a
> >>  converted ambulance. Next to this hotel room
> processing doesn't sound so
> >>  extreme,
> >  > though traveling with the chemicals would be very
> inconvenient.
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