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The right darkroom book?
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, -- Giant_Alex })))* not my site: http://www.e-sword.net/ |
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"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 The book is now outdated!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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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! Search 'darkroom' on Amazon and browse the results and reviews. 531 titles found. |
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The right darkroom book?
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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! 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 -- Reality is a picture perfected and never looking back. |
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The right darkroom book?
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 -- Fotos unter http://www.gugau-foto.de/ Special unter http://www.hoellenmusik.de/ Schottland unter http://www.whisky-guide.de/ |
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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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