“Oh,” I said. “Well, but, I don’t actually want to take pictures. Just develop the film. And make the prints, I guess. But not the camera part. If I just wanted to take pictures, I could use my phone.” I paused. “I think what I want is the physical, tactile part. Taking a reel full of transparent tape and exposing it to certain liquids for a certain time and turning it into tiny little images, and then projecting those images onto a blank piece of paper with a certain kind of light, and certain other chemicals, and when you’re all done, it’s worked, and you’ve made something out of nothing.”
