"Ken Hart" <kwhart1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> "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 The book is now outdated!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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