From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 01/22/02-09:34:03 PM Z
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Burkhardt Kiegeland wrote:
>
> BTW - the definite guide by Dick Stevens I own. It contains a lot of
> information of which a certain amount seems somewhat unconsistent.
The understatement of the year. (Of course the year is yet young -- who
knows what lies ahead?) Anyway, here I go again... someone might even say
I'm being disrespectful. That's a TERRIBLE book... organized by spilling
his notes onto the page. (I said this on the list 5 years ago & no one
batted an eye, but we live in difficult times.) Among the inconsistencies
you notice, is for instance on one page he says increasing silver nitrate
percent makes it bluer, about 3 pages away says it makes it redder... Not
to mention a fair amount of general gobbledegook & omission, besides the
inconsistency.
But, as I've said in these pages before, alt-photo publishing is the land
of the blind, etc. That's the only *book* on the topic, very plausible
looking, and from major photo publisher who, if you check their list,
actually knows from beans. But that DOES NOT matter, because we all bought
it anyway, didn't we?
I got much better info from an unpublished thesis (it was available, I can
look it up, don't remember name now). Also an early lab manual from
Bostick & Sullivan filled in some of the pieces. (They've probably put it
through a spellcheck & I hope also a grammar check & got it on their
website now. Of course I don't know if they PLUG it -- but the info
worked.)
However, the thing isn't all that serious... since, as we know, these
processes are terrifically sensitive to your own aura and water not to
mention taste... You've got to go through a lot of the motions of testing
anyway. But one thing sort of did blow me away with that book. He starts
out chapter one with a long detailed step by step exegesis of his testing
process... you're following, concentrating, taking notes, right? -- then
after quite a few pages and more of your life than you care to throw away,
he ends abruptly with, "but this method wasn't as good as another so I
stopped doing it." I mean this is *DEFINITIVE* right? Definitive dumkopf.
That material belonged in an appendix if anywhere... to start with it
really, as we say in Brooklyn, got up my nose.
Which, BTW, is the trouble with a lot of these books done by mainstream
publishers. Again, to repeat myself -- it's all gibberish to the
editors... they don't notice stuff like that.
Judy
>
> Burkhardt,
> >
> > I don't have the particular info that you seek, but there is a book "Making
> > Kallitypes A Difinitive Guide" by Dick Stevens published 1993, by Focal
> > Press/Butterworth Heineman, 80 Montvale Ave., Stoneham, MA 02180 USA that
> > might have what you seek and more. Hope this helps - Leslie
> >
>
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