Hobbies Whether you choose black-and-white or color, you can have pictures processed as prints or slides. You must decide in advance so that you buy the right film. Prints should be kept in an album or a scrapbook. Slides, which may be projected on a screen or seen through an illuminated hand-viewer, may be safely stored in a block of pull-out drawers made for that purpose.

The Polaroid Land Camera provides a great deal of fun. It can be a sensation at parties. It develops, prints, and delivers the finished black-and-white picture in ten seconds. It is now possible to make color prints with a Polaroid in fifty seconds. Another novel camera is the stereo camera that produces perfect three-dimensional pictures. The finished picture, which may be in black-and-white or color, is actually two pictures mounted as a slide. The one problem is that these pictures must be seen through a hand-viewer, which usually has to be readjusted for each person, but the depth and beauty of the pictures warrant the trouble. No one has yet devised a way to project these pictures.

If you want to develop your negatives and make your own prints, you can use an extra large closet or a small room as your darkroom. The necessary equipment and materials are not expensive, and the process is simple enough for a teenage youngster to understand. If you take many photographs, you can enjoy substantial savings by doing your own processing.




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December 4, 2008