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Old February 22nd 08, 07:10 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.medium-format
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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,

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Old February 22nd 08, 10:33 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.medium-format
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"AAvK" wrote in message
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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 The book is now outdated!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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Old February 23rd 08, 02:29 AM posted to rec.photo.equipment.medium-format
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Default The right darkroom book?

"Ken Hart" wrote:


"AAvK" wrote in message
...

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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Old February 23rd 08, 03:40 AM posted to rec.photo.equipment.medium-format
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"AAvK" wrote in message
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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!


Actually for the novice The Darkroom cook book or The Film Development
Cookbook are good references, + they are written by a personal friend of
mine

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Old February 24th 08, 11:30 AM posted to rec.photo.equipment.medium-format
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AAvK schrieb:

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?


Take a look at "The Darkrook Cookbook" http://tinyurl.com/yo6nd4 and
"The Film Developing Cookbook" http://tinyurl.com/26tkgu

Andreas

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Old February 27th 08, 01:54 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.medium-format
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Curious if there is a current book that...

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Okay all, thank you very much for the replies, I will save everything to a text.
Much appreciated.

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