lemur68 wrote:Mandroid2.0 wrote:You can generally get free AA and AAA batteries from places that develop film photos. They are removed from disposable cameras and saved for recycling. They are usually somewhat used, but they are also free.
Scratches on film can sometimes be fixed or at least made less noticeable on a photo print by rubbing some of the grease from the area between your nose and eye over the scratched film.
Fuck yeah, I had shit-tons of batteries. I imagine you could also load a fresh roll of film into a disposable camera and use it again, but I never tried.
To feign artistic photographic ability, you can process E-6 slide film in a C-41 machine and not harm the chemistry, and it will develop negative instead of positive--your future slides are ruined, but you can make prints and they will come out high-contrast and grainy. We did this by accident a lot, but sometimes people would do it on purpose. However, that is the only slide film you can cross-process or both your and our shit will get fucked up.
Pics of you neck-deep in stripper beav at your bachelor party, followed by "tasteful" "art" shots of your wife on the honeymoon, have likely been gawked at by everyone working there, and possibly extra copies made for, um, "use" later, so keep that in mind. This is why digital, and Polaroid before that, was invented.
(Srsly, there had to be only like one male stripper in town, because at least three times a week we'd see his greezed-up thong butt in some bachelorette party pics. White guy, with fake tan, blond jheri curl, porn stache, and hirsute-ass chest. Pretty much your archetypal man-stripper.)
That special "photo disk" at the digital printing kiosk we sold for $5? Just a regular 3.5" floppy. You're a luddite
and a sucker.
I always thought the nose grease trick was gross, though.