Recently, my son purchased a 35mm camera – a Pentax K1000. He took a couple rolls worth of film; we developed it here and his shots turned out pretty well.
Seemed like the next logical step was to buy an enlarger. We seem to have missed the timing on this by a bit. It was a little difficult to find one, and cost more than I expected (Just over $200 in Canadian dollars on eBay). We missed the “this is trash throw it out” timing and caught the start (or well in the middle of?) of “hey this stuff is hard to find and only going to get harder” stage.
So we recently purchased an enlarger – a Durst F60. It accepts 35mm and 6×6 negatives, and came with both 50mm and 75mm lens/condenser sets.
Bought some trays and enough developer/stop/fix/paper/tongs etc to print a few things. See how it goes.
First round was pretty successful, for a first attempt.
The upper left is the best of the bunch. I need to work on my timing mostly. Lots of reading to do still.