Bogdan Karasek wrote:
> Hello, An interesting source are the books that date from before WWII
> and the early 50's. I have a collection of them. Pick them up at garage
> sales and flea markets. As somebody pointed out, photo techniques, per
> se, have not changed, give or take, there new films , papers but the
> basic techniques are valid. .......
I remember doing exactly that in the mid 1960's. Being broke, but
inventive, my first darkroom trays were the lids that large
containers of potato salad, etc came in. I made an enlarger
from two coffee cans, a light bulb and socket and used my camera,
a Kodak Tourist 620 as the lens.
My first roll of film was a flop. I very carefully tray developed it
using a red safelight as all the books said I could. Unfortunately,
Kodak had since replaced Verichrome (an orthochromatic film) with
Verichrome Pan (panchromatic, i.e. sensitive to red) but none of
the books were new enough to mention the difference.
By the time I did my second roll, I went out and bought a cheap
daylight tank.
Geoff.
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