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I used to work in a photo store, one of those 1-hour photo things, around 2002. Most commonly asked questions were "did you see anything 'weird' wink wink?" Ye

I used to work in a photo store, one of those 1-hour photo things, around 2002. Most commonly asked questions were "did you see anything 'weird' wink wink?" Yes. "did you look at _all_ the photos?" You didn't have to, but the printer running unadjusted was crap since it kind of tried to level the exposure and color tint to some average. I always looked at every pic and adjusted according to how I imagined the photographed wanted it to look like. Loved taking those machines apart and see how they worked on the inside. Also, for a low-wage manual worker that didn't get a lot of training on the job, one of the chemicals we filled up with from large canisters (for C-46? E-46?) had a warning label it would react with ordinary house-hold cleaner chems and form mustard gas. That was kind of stressful.

BBC-vs-neolibs 5y ago
C-41 for print film, E-6 for slide film.
xdennis 5y ago
> one of the chemicals we filled up with from large canisters (for C-46? E-46?) had a warning label it would react with ordinary house-hold cleaner chems and form mustard gas Presumably you're referring to the bleach stage (or blix stage which is bleach + fix). I'm pretty sure regular bleach is more common in households than C-41 bleach. Edit: Bleach + ammonia makes mustard gas, and ammonia is contained by some window cleaners. I think it's a lot more common for someone to mix bleach and window cleaner (thinking it works better) than to mix window cleaner with photographic chemicals.