Hobbies Any salesman in a camera shop can show you the kind of printing frame, darkroom lamp, trays, chemicals and other tools you will need. There will probably be simple, sound instructions included with the recommended chemicals. Check this with the salesman. If instruction sheets are not included, he can recommend an inexpensive book that will serve.

In addition to saving money by doing your own processing, you can get better prints than you ordinarily receive from the assembly-line laboratories. This is accomplished, as the instruction books will explain in detail, by changing the exposure time in printing to produce the maximum result from each negative.

The amateur movie-maker has an absorbing hobby which has endless facets for him to explore. He can depict the growth and life-story of his children or make an exciting record of his travels. But he can do much more than that. He can make real motion pictures—fictional stories or documentaries. He does not have to be confined to the more or less formal techniques of Hollywood producers, who rarely dare risking huge sums of money on innovations that paying audiences may not find acceptable.

The amateur has no restrictions except the limitations of the camera and of his own creativity. Here is a compelling challenge! Stop complaining about the inadequacy of commercial movies and television, and try your own hand at producing novel entertainment.




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December 4, 2008