RE: Coffee bean grinder + Chris's prints & blather
DEAR JACK, Two things: 1) There is an omission of a decimal point in your formula below. It should be 9.5 grams of hydroquinone, not 95 grams. 2) Checking back as far as my 1978 Photo Lab Index supplements, I found a GAF #115 formula exactly the same as yours below but couldn’t find an Ansco #118. Were you referring to #115 or was there, indeed, an Ansco #118? I know that the company was once known as Ansco/GAF but that isn’t really the issue. CHEERS! BOB ________________________________________ From: Jack Fulton [mailto:jefulton1@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 4:04 PM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: Re: Coffee bean grinder + Chris's prints & blather On Nov 14, 2008, at 12:19 AM, eric nelson wrote: Different Eric here but I got a good price for silver nitrate a while back from saltlakemetals.com. I looked at one of my bottles to get you that name and I may need a coffee grinder too. =\ Glycin will turn bad pretty quick once opened even in a dry state. I think claims of a red tone from that dev are inaccurate but on some papers no longer made, it might have done that. That formula looks similar to Ansco 130. Warm tones can be better achieved with Ansco 115. Higher dilutions make it warmer BUT I used it with some Oriental Warmtone paper and was underwhelmed by it's lack or warmth from what I was used to with Forte, (sniff, I miss Forte paper). Thanks for link to silver nitrate . . . great price. The actual formula for the Ansco 130 has Metol in it, twice as much Sulfite and Hydroquinione. Why the Kodak one does not I am not sure. Ansco also had another formula, #118 Sulfit 90 grams Sod Carb 150 Glycin 30 Hydroquin. 95 Pot Brom 4 But your note that it will deteriorate once opened is a good thought. Though I must say that when I bought it years and years ago it also did not work as implied. Thanks Jack F Kodak formula: H2O 750 mls Sod Sulfite 25 grams Glycin 4 " Sod Carb 30.4 " Pot Brom 1 " to make 1 liter Dilute 1:2 w/water Exposures must be adjusted and color is determined by length of development. Have any of you ever tried this? My luck is nil . . . but my thoughts have led to the idea that perhaps an immensely long exposure is necessary. And, finally, looking @ Chris' new messy, moldy, brush strokey pix, the ones appealing to me is the 1st Father Daughter image for it reminds me of Louis Duco Du Hauron's image of the city of Agen, virtually the world's first color outdoor image, which employed virtually the same basic premise as tri-color gum And that last photo, the hand-colored Mordancage, "After Richter" w/that blue vein. Both are quite interesting to view again. What'm I doin here . . . writing a blog? But hope some answers come to the multiple questions or POV's. Jack F __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3615 (20081115) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
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