[Leica] IMG: Film Developing - Reticulation

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I think in the last twenty years of film making by Kodak, Ilford and Fuji
and whoever  else they got it so no matter what you did; ice cold to boiling
hot water and back you were not going to get any reticulation. Its a thing
we white haired guys and gals have in our pasts which  even people who got a
toe in on film  at the end were not able to do.  A bit of a right of
passage. Many of my friends had that one reticulation example they could dig
up and show you a print of.
Now its just digital algorithms. Third party software to fool around with
endlessly till the company goes out of business and it doesn't work with the
next Photoshop upgrade. Way more ways of experimentation and variety. But no
ice cold and boiling hot water repeated baths.
No more sloshing away in the toxic waste.

The reason why my negs reticulated come to think of it is I subjected them
to copper toner. Toner with real copper in it. Was supposed to be an
intensifier. It for sure put the neg structure thought some major changes so
when the hot water hit it was a sitting duck.
And I was 13 or 14 when this happened.
In 1965 or 6.

-- 
Mark R.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/


> From: Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:16:12 -0600 (CST)
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Film Developing - Reticulation
> 
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Wow, it's amazing how the effect appears so different on the photo of
>> the jug and the self-portrait.
> 
>> Marty 
> ==============================================================================
> ====================
> Did you read the caption on the portrait?  The texture is probably 
> suppressed
> because those are two negatives fused together by their emulsions.  I cut 
> them
> up, wet them, flipped one, lined up my eyeball and let them dry.
> 
> Alan
> 
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> UPAA POY 1978
> University Information Technology Services
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> amr3 at uwm.edu
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> 
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>  for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
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