Description
Book SynopsisThe Film Developing Cookbook, 2nd edition is an up-to-date manual for photographic film development techniques. This book concentrates on films, their characteristics, and the developers each requires for maximum control of the resulting image.
For two decades The Film Developing Cookbook has helped photographers acquire a working knowledge of photographic chemistrywhat photo chemicals do and whyfor black and white film developing. Now reissued in a revised and fully updated edition, this must-have manual for photographic film development techniques covers films, their characteristics, and the developers each require for maximum control of the resulting image. Readers will learn how to mix and use photographic solutions from scratch, and even how to create new ones. Includes invaluable information about films, developer ingredients, formulas, speed increasing, mixing and storing stock solutions, stop baths, fixers, washing, and chemical safety.
Trade Review
"The authors have compiled from sources ordinary and obscure a treasure-trove of information from the everyday to the experimental, all of it useful and interesting. Over the years following the first edition I have used this book as a guide for exploratory refinements to all processes in my darkroom. 60 new pages add new techniques, new formulas, and explanation of the mysteries of development."
Gordon Hutchings, author, The Book of Pyro
"This book is the most essential piece of darkroom equipment. It contains many of the best formulae - and the most useful information - from the entire history of photography. I only wish it had been published 53 years ago when I first fell in love with the darkroom."
John Wimberley, Photographer
"This indispensable book, the 2nd edition of The Film Developing Cookbook, is a mine of authoritative, interesting and practical information about every aspect of film and its processing. A ‘must buy’ book for darkroom fans of all levels."
Tim Rudman. Fine Art Photographer and Printer, Author
Praise for the Previous Edition:
"This is an original, personal treatment of a complex technical subject. The author takes some unconventional positions, but his grasp of the underlying science is sound"
T.H. James, author of The Theory of the Photographic Process
"This elegant, user-friendly book clearly provides the photo-chemical information necessary for the photographer to be in control of his or her black and white film developing. I cannot praise the writing and design of The Film Developing Cookbook highly enough."
Journal of the Print World
"…this is a very important publication for every fan of the darkroom. You'll learn huge amounts of stuff about photographic processes."
www.photocrack.com
"The authors have compiled from sources ordinary and obscure a treasure-trove of information from the everyday to the experimental, all of it useful and interesting. Over the years following the first edition I have used this book as a guide for exploratory refinements to all processes in my darkroom. 60 new pages add new techniques, new formulas, and explanation of the mysteries of development."
Gordon Hutchings, author, The Book of Pyro
"This book is the most essential piece of darkroom equipment. It contains many of the best formulae - and the most useful information - from the entire history of photography. I only wish it had been published 53 years ago when I first fell in love with the darkroom."
John Wimberley, Photographer
"This indispensable book, the 2nd edition of The Film Developing Cookbook, is a mine of authoritative, interesting and practical information about every aspect of film and its processing. A ‘must buy’ book for darkroom fans of all levels."
Tim Rudman. Fine Art Photographer and Printer, Author
Praise for the Previous Edition:
"This is an original, personal treatment of a complex technical subject. The author takes some unconventional positions, but his grasp of the underlying science is sound"
T.H. James, author of The Theory of the Photographic Process
"This elegant, user-friendly book clearly provides the photo-chemical information necessary for the photographer to be in control of his or her black and white film developing. I cannot praise the writing and design of The Film Developing Cookbook highly enough."
Journal of the Print World
"…this is a very important publication for every fan of the darkroom. You'll learn huge amounts of stuff about photographic processes."
www.photocrack.com
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Index of Formulas
CHAPTER 1 - Developer Categories
CHAPTER 2 - Films
CHAPTER 3 - Developer Ingredients
CHAPTER 4 - Development Procedures
CHAPTER 5 - Solvent Developers (Fine Grain)
CHAPTER 6 - Non-solvent Developers (High Definition)
CHAPTER 7 - Super-fine Grain Developers
CHAPTER 8 - Tanning Developers
CHAPTER 9 - Special Developers
CHAPTER 10 - Increasing Film Speed
CHAPTER 11 - Document Films
CHAPTER 12 - After Development Processes 1: Stop Baths
CHAPTER 13 - After Development Processes 2: Fixing, Washing, Drying
CHAPTER 14 - After Development Processes 3: Advanced Fixer Topics
CHAPTER 15 - After Development Processes 4: Image Permanence
APPENDICES
I: Reference Formulas
II: Mixing Solutions
III: Chemical Safety
IV Henn’s Forgotten Suggestions for D-25 and Microdol
Bibliography
Sources
Developing Time Chart
Temperature Conversion Chart
Index
