Mark, I know LaGrange Camera! It's in downtown LaGrange, along the Burlington railroad tracks and across from the station. I still visit them occasionally. Bought 110 film there for the mini Pentax. Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > HI Bob - > > The store is Lagrange Camera - 104 West Burlington. I think it is the > Lagrange that is out by you. They did not have a lot of Pentax gear, though. > > Mark C. > > On 11/17/2011 9:29 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> >> Mark C, >> I wonder if that is the LaGrange Park that is just a bit east of me. >> What's the name of the place? >> Regards, Bob S. >> >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Mark C<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> That sounds like fun. I played around with developing with coffee last >>> summer - it is pretty simple to do and the results were not bad. Only >>> developer that I've used that managed to get rid of the pink cast in >>> Neopan >>> SS. Aside from the novelty, there is not much point to it though. >>> >>> FWIW - I found a store in Lagrange Park, Illinois, that still has good >>> stocks of many Kodak powder developers. Mostly in the old foil pouches, >>> which can be good for storage. I picked up some Microdol-X and DK-50. >>> They >>> had lots of D76 but I already have gobs of that on hand.... >>> >>> MCC >>> >>> On 11/16/2011 8:21 AM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: >>>> >>>> Here's something quite novel from APUG/Alan Johnson.Developer from >>>> Broccoli >>>> >>>> Many plant chemicals contain phenolic groups (as do >>>> hydroquinone,pyrogallol,pyrocatechol).I tried to extract the phenols >>>> from >>>> Broccoli by heating 200g Broccoli in 1% sodium carbonate (anh) solution >>>> at >>>> 100C for 15min with stirring.After filtering this Broccoli extract I >>>> added >>>> some Phenidone dissolved in isopropyl alcohol. >>>> >>>> PP-1 developer: >>>> Extract of 200g Broccoli >>>> Phenidone .................0.1g >>>> Sodium Carbonate 1% to 600ml. >>>> >>>> I checked that phenidone alone was not doing the developing by >>>> developing old APX 400 30m 20C ag 10s/min in PP-1 without the Broccoli >>>> extract.The negatives were very thin and flat. >>>> For the test, APX 400 at EI=200 was developed in PP-1 30m 20C >>>> ag10s/min. >>>> The negatives were slightly underdeveloped but otherwise good.The >>>> attachments show the full negative and a 0.2in square section. >>>> >>>> To see if there was any tanning I bleached the negs in 100g/L >>>> ferricyanide/bromide and fixed them.No relief image or tanning could be >>>> seen. >>>> This surprised me as I expected plant phenols to be like >>>> hydroquinone,pyrogallol, pyrocatechol and tan the negatives.The only >>>> explanation I can find is that the oxidation products of Broccoli >>>> phenols >>>> are not very stable and do not spread through the gelatin (Photographic >>>> Processing Chemistry, LFA Mason 1975 p172).Of course all this does rely >>>> on >>>> the assumption that it is the phenols from Broccoli that are involved in >>>> the >>>> developing. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sincerely, >>>> >>>> Collin Brendemuehl >>>> "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot >>>> lose" >>>> -- Jim Elliott >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
