Really?
Hey, I'm looking at a stash of trays I haven't even touched in years!
There are hard rubber trays, plastic trays, and somewhere hidden are some enameled trays as well as stainless steel, in an assortment of sizes(even, IIRC, some kitty litter trays)
Some I have a special fondness for (I dislike the word sentimental but I do like) especially my yellow Kodak trays, I actually need to keep my big white Omega trays for the 12x20 film and 16x20 prints, and my favorites are my very first set of trays, 8x10s made by some long gone company out of a very thin plastic in the 70's complete with the original price stickers- 39 cents- as well as a set of plastics from Freestyle and another a set of Satters. Since I expect to be shooting more ortho, I'll using trays for processing film as well as prints and if I embark on an alternative process I'd imagine extras will come in handy, but right now i simply have too many!
Does anyone have a formula for weeding out trays? Should I part with the broken sets (I have two hard rubber Aces but not the third) Should I give up the badly stained ones? Or chuck 'em all except the newest plastics? Do I keep the pretty colored ones? Do I go all luddite and use only the enamelled steel and hard rubbers?
Aye carumba! My head is spinning! Every time I move a box I seem to find more trays tucked away!
I can nest the unused trays and store them in the garage, but they can't stay in the house and besides I'd rather give the ones i don't need to local photography students.
If I weren't allergic to cats i could recycle 'em as litter boxes, eh?
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