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Subject: [Leica] Cookin' in the Dark!
From: "caliguri@rcn.com" <caliguri@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 12:52:46 -0400

The companion book to "The Film Developing Cookbook: Advanced 
Techniques 
> for Film Developing" by Anchell & Troop is "The Darkroom Cookbook" 
(2nd ed.) by... Anchell. 



Hi!
I have both books, and they differ enough for you to have both if you 
really get into this stuff. I have used them quite a bit for reference
texts 
in classes. You won't see many chemical structures or talk of electrons 
going from one place to another ( that's good for a start!) - you can 
always go Hard Core later on ;-) , in so much as the Kodak Texts are 
concerned - or real Electrochemistry textbooks that stray very far from 
the topic of photography. Then, I'd suggest an actual chemistry class 9I 
recall you asking 'HOW all this takes place' and there you'd find those 
answers have you the desire. "the Book of Pyro" by Gordon Hutchings 
is also complete. Pyrogalic acid based developers do some mighty 
strange things that can be fun to read about. All this, by the way, helps 
one understand why film and digital are all so different, and that effects 
that can be obtained chemical - wise may not be digital - wise. It's fun 
stuff if you are a chemistry nut as I am :-)
Good reading!
Ed

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