At 07:35 AM 9/20/2002 -0400, you wrote: >FYI - in an interesting turn of developments our support staff has >decided to stop storing, mixing, providing any products that contain >dichromates. Chemicals for photographic processing have been reduced >to not much more than the bare-bones level. Film developer, paper >developer, fixer, stop and maybe two-three additional mixes. This stuff has become Hazmat and is a lot harder to deal with than it was 20 years ago, even though the chemistry hasn't changed. You can't air-ship it. You can't dump fixer down the drain because the silver salts upset the balance of the bacteria in the sewer system. The EPA has made it far more difficult to run a darkroom. >On the other hand, a faciltity incorporating 30 new computer work >stations (in addition to the already existing 30) has been funded >and installed over the summer. I think this is a benefit to the digital darkroom that we frequently overlook. Its EPA friendly. Time to go shoot a few hundred more digital pics today.....(four news assignments, a football game and a SENIOR PGA event if I get time....) Rob -- Rob Miracle Photographic Miracles 203 Carpenter Brook Dr. Cary, NC 27519 http://www.photo-miracles.com
