Four bottles, many uses! I’ve been having a mixing day today! Following on from my last post, one of the many useful suggestions on Pictorial Planet was a “Grain Reducer” for use with Rodinal – I have a bottle of Rodinal that I don’t much like, this might encourage me to give it another go,Continue reading “Chemistry Again!”
Category Archives: Darkroom
To Patreonise or Not?
I always fight shy of “joining” things, especially online. I’m not one of those to click the “join” button easily. I read many blogs with great regularity, all of those listed in my “blogs I read” page for example. It’s almost a daily ritual that I click through my list of favourites to see what’sContinue reading “To Patreonise or Not?”
Darkroom on Wheels!
Well I’ve finally gone and done it! Something I’ve been talking about for over a decade. People who know me will testify that I’ve been boring them with the idea for years, if you look at the title page of this blog – since the beginning, campervans has been in the title – now it’sContinue reading “Darkroom on Wheels!”
A Black and White Birthday!
I’ve just had my 55th Birthday! It seems incredulous that I am that old, my birth certificate confirms it however! This year my loved ones gave me a “Black and White” Birthday!! Way back in 1990 I went to the cinema, it was a very common event. It was one of my “trips” up toContinue reading “A Black and White Birthday!”
Retirement!
I developed a roll of Ilford Delta 120 this morning. The final part of my process is to add a few drops of wetting agent to the final rinse, let it soak for a couple minutes, then wipe and hang to dry. Today marked a milestone! I finally finished my bottle of Ilford Ilfotol. I’veContinue reading “Retirement!”
Me, Chemistry and D23
Sometime around the age of 6 or 7 I was given a chemistry set for Christmas. I seem to remember there was some discussion as to whether this was a good idea or not. In the 1970’s giving a child a metalated spirits burner, and chemicals seemed less of a trauma than today. I guessContinue reading “Me, Chemistry and D23”
FP4 as HP5
While I was on my mini-break I raided my film stash for 400 speed film. I felt sure I’d need it, and I was correct! I ran very low, but in the end I returned home with half a dozen exposures left on the last roll. It seems to be a “thing” these days ofContinue reading “FP4 as HP5”
Tri-X Over Christmas
Late last year I tried my first, or to be more accurate, what I think was my first roll of Kodak’s Tri-X, otherwise known as TX 400. You can read about that here. I actually purchased three rolls at the time, so I thought I’d pop one in my Leica over Christmas, just to makeContinue reading “Tri-X Over Christmas”
Darkroom: Testing Developers 2: The Results
You may remember a while back a wrote a post about my attempt to test some developers. If not you can re-cap here. That post gave my thoughts and reasons. I’ve now used 3 developers and here are the results so far. You will notice the full frame above has three dots, at the bottom.Continue reading “Darkroom: Testing Developers 2: The Results”
Darkroom: Processing Film
I was recently asked by Steve in comments if I’d share my work flow for scanning. I’m happy to – but that got me thinking that I’ve never actually thought about what I do and why, it’s just a process that has “developed” (pun intended) over the decades! I’ll do two posts – one aboutContinue reading “Darkroom: Processing Film”
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