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The right darkroom book?
"Bogdan Karasek" wrote in message ... jjs wrote: "Jean-David Beyer" wrote in message news:QtXvj.1700$Hd.679@trnddc02... AAvK wrote: [...] Photographic principles have not changed much since Ansel Adams wrote his books. The more recent editions (since 1981) of "The Negative" and "The Print" mainly reflect the newer materials available since the first edition was printed. Jean-David, does the most recent version of The Print include VC papers? As an aside, our local library has a great old book on paper flashing as a means to control contrast range. But Agfa #6 is long gone. 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. The majority of these books are addressed to amateur photography enthusiats, phoot club members, kids in highschool, so everything had to be well explained, step by step, what happens with each step and its relative importance, darkroom tips, loads of formulas for everything and anything. You find a lot of them in "The DarkRoom CookBook". They have diagrams for wiring, building a darkroom, plumbing, everything that a kid needs to know on how to build a darkroom with the help of his dad. I find a lot of interesting ideas, techniques that are no longer used and forgotten The chemistry is not overly academic. They give what you need to know. When I was a kid, we used to read "Popular Mechanics" and and there would be articles on how to build you own enlarger, using tomato cans, magnifying glass, light bulb and what not. Great fun. I remember articles like that in Pop Mech! Actually, I built an adjustable enlarger stand from plans in PM. It had a shelf that slid into slots as that larger prints could be made than the orginal baseboard would allow. (Tomato cans were used for 35mm, if you wanted medium format, you had to use coffee cans!) Those old books can give you an interesting slant on how to 'make do' without spending a pile of money on shiny equipment. |
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The right darkroom book?
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. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ |
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The right darkroom book?
"AAvK" wrote in message ... Curious if there is a current book that... -- Giant_Alex })))* not my site: http://www.e-sword.net/ Okay all, thank you very much for the replies, I will save everything to a text. Much appreciated. -- Giant_Alex })))* not my site: http://www.e-sword.net/ |
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The right darkroom book?
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:29:17 -0600, John wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:29:38 -0800 (PST), Peter wrote: Thanks for the list, but what became of www.darkroompro.com ? It's still there of course but I'm waiting for the old registrar (Godaddy) to release the domain name to the new registrar (Webmasters.com) Speedbump ! Well after moving everything to webmasters.com I started getting email from people on AOL saying they couldn't access it. I'm moving it back to Godaddy however webmasters.com has the domain tied up. What is up with these people ? ! Any, most everything is up at Legacy-photo.com for now. So much fun, so little time ! JD |
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