Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I am in the process of reading this very book right now. It is interesting, and the authors have opinions, which is quite refreshing (even if I disagree with their dislike of Delta films). I had no idea that vitamin C could act as a developing agent, but even more interesting is the possibility of using human urine...this means that even if Kodak dumps B&W and Ilford goes out of business, we will always have developer!!! I can just see the instructions: To prepare developer: drink 2 pints of Guiness, followed by 10 cl single malt and 1/2 l of water. To make 1 liter ;-))) Nathan Mark Rabiner wrote: > Having just pretty much finished reading "The Film Developing Cookbook" > (Anchell/Troop) I would extol the use of Xtol. I just had the rewarding > experience of getting 5 one liter brown glass bottles for mine from a > Laboratory supply place here in town. You have never seen such nice > brown glass bottles! > 1:2 or three should give me or you the qualities I used to get with > Beutler's with nicer grain. > I'ts Kodaks last big bang farwell to the world of black and white > chemestry. And the black and white world will never be the same! > Invented by Silvia Zawadzki better living with Vitamin C! (sodium isoascorbate) > Mark Rabiner - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator Belgium photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman