I hope you like it as much as I do, Mark. One can never have enough books. One of the frugal joys of darkroom books in 2016 is rediscovering what were great titles from a couple of decades ago (or longer). I've got the original 1995 edition of Eddie Ephraums "Creative Elements: Darkroom Techniques for Landscape Photographers" (a whopping 41 cents + shipping) and I also tripped across a hardcover copy of the 1989 "Ilford Monochrome Darkroom Practice: A Manual of Black-And-White Processing and Printing" at a crazy $2.00 + shipping price (320 pages!)
Some books are out of print and offered at crazy prices. That's when I turn to the Inter-Library Loan program. Tim Rudman's Toning Book is now $150-200, but I have a copy that is mine until April 22nd for only a $3 fee. On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > Just ordered a copy on Amazon - looks like it will be an interesting read. > The resource I have relied upon is Morgan and Morgan's "Darkroom Book." It's > more of a general guide to developing and printing and includes a chapter > about how to setup a home darkroom. But one chapter - "Fine Tuning the > Chemistry" - goes into the essential components of developers, fixers, hypo > clear, etc. Includes recipes for various developers. The book you recommend > sounds llke it covers this in much more detail. > > Mark > > > On 3/6/2016 3:14 PM, Darren Addy wrote: >> >> This may be of interest to only a few, but I pass it along anyway... >> >> If you want a "Master's Class" in B&W film developers, you have to get >> a copy of the 1998 "The Film Developing Cookbook". WOW. Just received >> my copy and it is a well-organized, easy read on the various families >> of developers, what they are best at as well as the formulas to make >> your own. There are also chapters on Films (obviously dated), >> Developer ingredients, Development Procedures, and After Development >> Processes: Stop Baths, Fixers, Washing. >> >> The book has "three special emphases: how to use different developers >> to achieve a wide range of pictorial effects, how to mix and use >> solutions from scratch (and how to create new ones), and how to >> process film for maximum archival permanance." "Much of the >> information in this book have never been published before." >> >> A quick perusal allows me to say that this includes a formula for >> HC-110 gleaned from its 1971 Patent information. (However, convenient, >> versatile and economical as HC-110 may be "it produces coarser grain >> than D-76, and is not as sharp as many high acutance developers." Page >> 67 contains Edwal formulas, including Edwal Super 20: "The official >> formula for Super 20 has never before been published, though several >> popular authors have (incorrectly) claimed to know it." >> >> The book was begun as a response to difficulty people had getting good >> images from Kodak's Tmax film. (I have about 13 36-exposure rolls of >> Tmax 100 in inventory.) >> >> If you are interested in B&W film developing, I can't recommend it >> highly enough. >> > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > -- > 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. -- “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above -- 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.
