Jen and I found a photo booth on Pier 45 at the Museum Mechanique. I had never used one before and I was surprised to find that this particular one included a sepia bath for archiving! I expected it to be a chemical B&W process (I once had to repair an old Kodak photo booth while working for Noritsu), but I was very surprised to smell rotten eggs when the strip came out of the booth! It was not sepia toned enough to change the blacks to brown, but we both smelled the tell-tale odor. When we scanned the strip, the texture of the paper showed on the scan as specular highlights, which should make for an interesting print....
UPDATE: I spoke with a professor at AAU who owns a photo booth and knows the owner of the photo booth that we used. She said that although there is a toner in the booth (which has 12 different baths for the developing process!), the sulfur smell and brown tone was actually an indicator of chemical exhaustion, not sepia toning.
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