Developing & Printing gear

[Chesand]

I have been having a clean out and have found my developing and printing gear for black and white films from the 1950s - so probably museum pieces now.
If any one is interested there is a developing tank, a couple of trays and sundry other bits and pieces.

All FREE but would have to be collected. (near Airport West Shopping Centre)

If no takers it will be consigned to the rubbish bin.

[FenceFurniture]

Enough to make an old ex-photog cry!

[Chesand]

Enough to make an old ex-photog cry!

I guess so. It was just a hobby for me using 120 film. The photos that I developed have lasted a lot better than the early color ones.

[Grumpy John]

I got rid of my B&W developing gear including enlarger to to the local high school. They made really good use of it, and I hate throwing out good gear that works, just because it is obsolete.

[Chesand]

I got rid of my B&W developing gear including enlarger to to the local high school. They made really good use of it, and I hate throwing out good gear that works, just because it is obsolete.

I never got round to having an enlarger. I might try the local high school but I suspect they will be all digital and computerised now.

[Grumpy John]

I had a full developing and printing kit. The graphic arts dept. at the local High School couldn't believe it when I offered it to them. At the time SWMBO and I were going through a rough patch financially and couldn't afford the kids school fees, so I offered them my gear as it was worth nothing second hand. A win -win situation.

[BobL]

I tried to give my stuff away and no body wanted it, Eventually I put a price tag of $100 and got a number of enquiries and sold the lot for $75.

[fletty]

This is a raw nerve for me and TIMES TWO!
Technology has given me a lot of joy and help but has also dealt me a number of serious disappointments!
The first is that I have a lot of 'chemical' photographic gear. I was a semi professional exhibition printer of fine art black and white and, particularly, archival colour printing with Cibachrome/ilfachrome, enlargers, CAP40 processor, masks, frames and filing cabinets of stored paper for both! I still have ALL of it and, rather ironically, it is stored in my darkroom which is downstairs directly under the computer which has replaced it?
My other disappointment is (literally) thousands of aviation books and magazines and (again literally) tens of thousands of negatives, prints and slides of (mostly) Australian aircraft from the mid 1960's to current. These were left to an Australian Aviation Museum which has recently very politely advised me that they can no longer accept it as paper storage is a significant burden for them AND they can google anything that is in the books and magazines. The Australian aviation photos however are a different matter and IF I could scan all 200,0000+ of them, they would accept the files!
I can't bring myself to throwing ANY of it out?
fletty