Every now and then I'll bump into a box of an old project I don't have the time or (mostly) energy to finish and get real mad at it, like this disposable 4x5 camera for wet plates I was gonna package up with a portable darkroom. Had mostly beat the light leak problem when it got pushed onto the finish-maybe-someday pile but uuuuh not the problem of how to develop in the field without spilling $50 in silver nitrate everywhere, which was kinda counterproductive to the whole cheapo DIY thing.
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Maybe proportioned preweighed baggies of chemistry? So there's no need to do anything but rip open envelope A and add to water, envelope b, c, etc
huh some kinda sealed single-use package the coated plate sits in until you're ready to use it woulda probably worked really good, like an anachronistic Polaroid. Would've at least cut the fumbling around with light-sensitive chemistry in half, and meant the main things to spill would be the relatively cheap and non-poisonous developer and fixer tanks.
Could even reuse old film canisters to hold the chemicals now that I think about it, they're light tight and pretty air tight.
The alternative reality polaroid.
That has potential but now I'm all caught up in trying to devise the Forbidden Poptart. Will see if I get anywhere
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