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Photobooth Innards: the inner workings of a vintage black and white photobooth in real time. Via photobooth.net, the most comprehensive photobooth resource on the internet (previously)
amazing.
Don't the liquids evaporate, sitting in open containers like that?
Maybe some kind of protective lid was removed for filming?
posted by device55 at 10:37 PM on May 8, 2014
Don't the liquids evaporate, sitting in open containers like that?
Maybe some kind of protective lid was removed for filming?
posted by device55 at 10:37 PM on May 8, 2014
Go leave that shape container filled with water on your bench. >90% will still be there in a few days. The machines get serviced/restocked regularly.
posted by bystander at 10:45 PM on May 8, 2014
posted by bystander at 10:45 PM on May 8, 2014
25 cents hahahahahha.
There's quite a few of these left in my town, there must be a service that rents them out ala arcade/pinball machines because new bars open and instantly have one.
They're all $4, at least. Some are $5. I'd do it all the time if they were $1, maybe even $2. But $5? Goddamn.
posted by emptythought at 1:20 AM on May 9, 2014
There's quite a few of these left in my town, there must be a service that rents them out ala arcade/pinball machines because new bars open and instantly have one.
They're all $4, at least. Some are $5. I'd do it all the time if they were $1, maybe even $2. But $5? Goddamn.
posted by emptythought at 1:20 AM on May 9, 2014
That was much more existential than I anticipated.
posted by JauntyFedora at 3:20 AM on May 9, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by JauntyFedora at 3:20 AM on May 9, 2014 [2 favorites]
Don't the liquids evaporate, sitting in open containers like that?
So a bit evaporates, making the developer stronger. Meanwhile, pictures are (presumably) being developed and depleting that same developer. Seems like you wouldn't have to worry about it within the context of "crappy instant photobooth print". It's not like it's an 8x10" Ansel Adams camera negative.
The chemistry in the machine would have to be regularly tested/replaced somehow anyways.
(I always wondered how these things work. The reality is pretty mundane...)
posted by neckro23 at 12:51 AM on May 10, 2014
So a bit evaporates, making the developer stronger. Meanwhile, pictures are (presumably) being developed and depleting that same developer. Seems like you wouldn't have to worry about it within the context of "crappy instant photobooth print". It's not like it's an 8x10" Ansel Adams camera negative.
The chemistry in the machine would have to be regularly tested/replaced somehow anyways.
(I always wondered how these things work. The reality is pretty mundane...)
posted by neckro23 at 12:51 AM on May 10, 2014
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