An interesting thread at Flickr outlines a whole bunch of ways to do film photography on the cheap, especially for Americans. I had an article on a similar topic on an older version of this site, but the information in the Flickr thread is more up-to-date. Definitely worth a visit.
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New and revised static pages
Lately, several people have e-mailed me asking for information on how I develop and scan my images. I decided to write up a general outline for anyone interested, and posted it as How I process and scan film. If you find that article interesting, you might want to check out my recently revised article on…
Products and Wet Tile
.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } From one of the first rolls of film with Barry Thornton’s divided metol-sulfite-metaborate developer (described in the previous post). I developed this roll of Tri-X (from the Nikon F90, in this…
Barry Thornton’s Two-Bath Developer
In his book Edge of Darkness, the late UK photographer and printer Barry Thornton describes his adaptation of an old Stoeckler two-bath B&W developer formula (presumably from the 1920s or thereabouts). Apart from Edge of Darkness and Thornton’s old website, there are few descriptions of the characteristics of this developer (see this APUG thread for…
The Future of Photography — as predicted in February 1944
In 1944, the editors of Popular Photography magazine asked a number of leading photographers of the time — among them Paul Strand and Bernice Abbot — to offer their comments on how photography would change in the years to come. Their predictions give an glimpse of what were the major technical and artistic limitations of…
B&W reversal with post-bleach reduction
This is old news, but worth putting on Photosensitive for the benefit of those who end up here after Google searches for B&W slide information. The standard chemical process for B&W reversal (slides) involves a first developer containing a thiosulfate or thiocyanate salt, followed by a permanganate or dichromate bleach, re-exposure and second development (or…
Canadian alt-process print exchange
I’m trying to organize (through hybridphoto.org and the alt-photo-process mailing list) a Canadian alternative process print exchange. If you’re interested, please e-mail me.
Exposure-Mat
Here’s something that should be of use to anyone who regularly uses the “Sunny 16” exposure rule (found on Flickr): The Exposure Mat.
“Instant MYTOL” results
I’ve developed several rolls of Fomapan 200 in “Instant MYTOL” (see EasyFilmDevelopers) and the results so far are great. It’s a tad inconvenient to mix, but I’m going to work on combining some of the active ingredients into a stock syrup. Here are some recent “Instant MYTOL” images:
Adams and Eisenstadt
Last week the Toronto photoblogging community got a special sneak preview of a new exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario featuring the work of Ansel Adams and Alfred Eisenstaedt. The AGO owns a lot of Eisenstaedt prints, which document his work in both Germany and the USA in the 1930s and 40s. Though his…