“I can smell the chemicals!” Feeling sentimental. In college, I was a lab assistant responsible for mixing tons of developer and other chemicals that looked like golden vats beer.
When you spend time in a dark room the smell gets into your soul and on to your clothes and everything looks better under red light.
I’m not interested in buying equipment at this point. I’m interested being invited into a community, borrowing or renting the equipment and paying for consumables.
I’ll second this, but more interested in community resources as don’t feel like setting up a dark room at home.