Re: Fixing of a kallitype

Judy.

What do you mean by ANECDOTAL !!!

Sorry that I am so thick,

Pete
regards
>
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Erich Camerling wrote:
>> I am really interested in soundly based answers,so please don't
>> tell me stories with : "when I remember well.. " or "I am not quite
>> sure... " or "I believe that..." etc.
>> There are already (too) many articles whit presumptions,
>> suppositions and idle thoughts on internet.
>
> Sorry Erich, here I disagree again. Although there is, it's true, more
> rubbish on the internet than in all outer space, one of the great joys
> of this list is that there's ALWAYS a counter voice, a correction.
>
> In my experience, once you know certain basics & know a certain protocol,
> the answer to a problem or hint of way to go is MOST OFTEN GOING TO BE
> ANECDOTAL !!! For instance, we chewed the business of the markings in the
> APHS back & forth on this list for several days. The most likely
> explanation came from Don Bryant mentioning that someone told him they
> HEARD that the American manufactured film had a defect, get the Japonese.
>
> I've picked up stuff like that again & again & again -- one of the reasons
> I love "shop talk." And exactly the kind of stuff you won't find published
> -- who is going to put that in print ?
>
> Of course you have to check it out for yourself -- but.... this is not the
> time or place for my rant about the curve and chart and one definite
> figure mindset that brought us the never to be mentioned again on this
> list gum-pigment-ratio test.... but if you have a thing for old photo
> books & magazines you may see it happening before your very eyes -- on
> several fronts-- circa 1925 - 1930.
>
> cheers,
>
> Judy
Received on Sat Dec 13 17:59:46 2003