Re: Coffee bean grinder + Chris's prints & blather
Note my words inserted between your lines Bob
On Nov 17, 2008, at 5:47 AM, BOB KISS wrote:
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.
You are absolutely correct . . it is 9.5 rather than 95
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.
Again, Bob, you are on the mark . . I type too fast and glance too fast
at the titles. My PhotoLab Index is from 1957. I found it one day in
book
shop and used it to teach myself photography . . along with other
books.
Thanks for the corrections.
CHEERS!
BOB
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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
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