Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:58 PM 6/9/01 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote: >><Snip> >I was just reading in Ansel Adams 1983 THE PRINT and he does not use tongs but >uses his fingers in his trays!!! >Found that surprising it was not as if he was inflexible in his darkroom >techniques. > >Mark Rabiner When Ansel died, he had incredibly bad arthritis. Fingers deformed, etc... Who knows the ramifications of chemical exposure. I've spent 90% of my darkroom life without tongs or gloves. But now I use tongs in developer, fingers in hypo. Gloves in color film stabilizer. Jim