"AAvK" <notforspam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Curious if there is a current book that covers film 'developing' on
> subjects such as
> the effects that specific developers will have of specific films and
such,
> like bring-
> ing out the best sharpness and contrasty tonality with shadow detail.
>
> The idea is a specialist book of teaching these things, I am no expert
and
> have had
> very little experience in the long past... I looked in Border's books,
the
> only two I
> could find were AA's 'The Negative' (too old?) and 'The Darkroom
Handbook'
> which looked really old (as new). Maybe either book are kept up in
> revision?
> Would either book cover the current World's compilation of chemicals and
> films?
>
> Any help very much appreciated,
>
Good luck-- you're asking for a pretty tall order!
Let's say I was going to write a book about a half-dozen films from a
half-dozen manufacturers, using a half-dozen different developers, each of
which has 2 different dilutions. So after a year, I've completed my
research, and my publisher is ready to go to press. Then one manufacturer
reformulates a developer, another discontinues a film, and two others
change
a film each. The book is now outdated!
Possibly your best bet would be to go to the film or developer
manudacturer's website and request or download their info. Obviously,
Kodak
isn't going to compare their products to Ilford or Fuji or vice versa, but
each manufacturer knows how their film works in their developers. Kodak
has
some really nice pdf files available online, I don't know what other
manufacturers have, since I don't use them.
Plus, the price for manufacturer's literature will probably be less than
Border's books!
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