Charles Steinmetz (csteinmetz@redneck.efga.org)
Tue, 02 Mar 1999 04:15:18 +0000
Bob Mazzullo wrote:
> Hello everyone.... Ê Does anyone have any information / web sites / book
> info / tech documentation, etc. on film emulsion formulas? Color, B&W,
> infrared, UV, spectroscopic, etc.... or am I asking to see the Holy Grail ?
>ÊIf anyone has any leads, I would greatly appreciate it if that info could
> be passed along.
Not really the Holy Grail, but an awful lot of information, and someone
would have to key it all in. I'll start with a bibliography of sources
that have been the most useful to me:
Photographic Emulsion Technique, by T. Thorne Baker
2nd ed. 1948 American Photographic Pub. Co. Boston [1st ed. 1941]
This is the single most useful book I've seen, as far as practical
emulsion-making is concerned. That said, please do not give the
internet photo-book pirate/pimps the >$100 they are asking.
The Photographic Emulsion, by B.H. Carroll, D. Hubbard, & C.M. Kretschman
n.d. Focal Press London & NY
A collection of seminal papers from the late '20s and early '30s. No
instructions for making emulsions, but lots to help you understand and
improve your methods once you are over the beginner's hump.
The Theory of the Photographic Process
1st ed. 1942 Macmillan Co. NY C.E. Kenneth Mees, ed.
2nd ed. 1954 Macmillan Co. NY C.E. Kenneth Mees, ed.
3rd ed. 1966 Macmillan Co. NY C.E. Kenneth Mees & T.H. James, eds.
Very technical compendium of all things silver-gelatin. Again, no
recipes for the beginner, but most all the public-domain information
on silver in one place.
Aristotypes and How to Make Them, by Walter E. Woodbury
1893 Scovill & Adams NY
Paper emulsion recipes, both gelatin and collodion.
Photographic Materials and Processes, by Stroebel/Compton/Current/Zakia
1986 Focal Press Boston & London
A fairly detailed overview chapter. No recipes.
C.B. Neblette has a very basic, but good, overview chapter in the
various editions of Photography: Its Materials and Processes (and its
succesor, Neblette's Handbook of Photography and Reprography), and in
Photography: Principles and Practices
Kodak published a pamphlet with a recipe for slow in-camera film, called
Making a Photographic Emulsion, publication AJ-12 (long out of print,
but sometimes available by calling Kodak's 800 number -- it depends on
the representative you get).
Jim Browning has posted his recipes and methods for making dye-transfer
matrix film, from which you can learn a great deal.
Best regards,
Charles
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