Darkroom Note

a mix from deskside.

newton rings:

pressure of platen

beware dirt

control humidity

Items from a color bibliography designed for those doing assembly processes — either rollup, or laydown forms.

Some Name Drops from the dye transfer world:

  • Dennis Brokaw (1939
  • *Bob Pace
  • Charles Swedlund (1935-  )
  • *Frant Tartaro
  • *Bob DeSantis,  (in LA)
  • Ernie DuSablon  , who ran the Color Works Lab in Detroit, Michigan
  • Floyd Lee
  • John Wawrzonek
  • *Jim Bones
  • Jim Wallace
  • Eliot Porter
  • Mindy Beede
  • David Doubley
  • Warren Condit
  • Morry Bard
  • Joan Matochik
  • Frank McLaughlin
  • Bob Speck — key inventor 1935 with Louis Condax (in Philadelphia)

Missing are the many teachers and most of the artists making use of the process between 1964 and 1988.

References on colloids

1. J. N. Armes “The nature and amounts of aldehyde in gelatin” Jour. Phot. Sci. vol. 14 pp. 143-148 1966.

2. H. Borginon “Photographic properties of the gelatin macromolecule” J. Phot. Sci. vol. 15 pp. 207-214 Sept. 1967.

3. R. J. Croome and F. G. Clegg Photographic Gelatin London and New York:Focal Press 1965.

4. H. Dehio G. Polla-Mattiot M. Gillio-Tos and G. Saini “The Influence of molecular weight of synthetic hydrophilic colloids on their protective action and on the ripening of silver halide crystals” J. Phot. Sci. vol. 10 pp. 302-305 1962.

5. J. W. Gates W. G. Lovett and P. E. Miller Photographic Emulsions Containing Carboxymethylated Pigskin Gelatin Eastman Kodak Co. May 1965.

6. M. N. Vrancken A. H. DeCat and J. F. Willems Improvements in or Relating to Gelatin Derivatives Gavaert Photo-Producten N.V. July 1961.

7. T. T. Hill “Laboratory-scale photographic emulsion technique” J. Chem. Educ. vol. 43 pp. 492-498 1966.

8. T. T. Hill “Literature of gelatin” in Literature Resources of the Chemical Process Industries Washington D.C.:American Chemical Society vol. I June 1968.

9. Flocculated Gelatin Emulsions Containing Sulphonated Copolymers of Styrene Feb. 1965.

10. B. Idson and E. Braswell “Gelatin” Adv. in Food Research vol. 7 pp. 235-338 1957.

11. T. H. James and W. Vanselow; “Adsorption as a factor in the rate of photographic development” Phot. Eng vol. 6 pp. 183-189 1955.

12. W. D. Kelly “Purification and chem. sensitization of phot. gelatin” J. Phot. Sci. vol. 6 pp. 16-22 1958.

13. C. E. K. Mees and T. H. James “3” in The Theory of the Photographic Process New York:MacMillan Co. 1966.

14. G. H. Nawn; “Interferences with the abribat test for labile S in gelatin and some implications with respect to chemical sensitization rates” Phot. Sci. & Eng. vol. 12 pp. 108-16 1968.

15. Y. Ohyama “On the action of some chem. sensit. as ‘anti-retarders’ or’ physical ripening accelerators'” Proceedings of RPS Centenary Conf. 1953.

16. Y. Ohyama and K. Futaki “Grain growth of silver chloride susp. in polyvinyl alcohol” Bull. Chem. Soc. Japan vol. 28 pp. 243-248 1955.

17. Y. Ohyama and K. Futaki “Var. alkyl amines & ammon. comp. as accelerators for grain growth of silver chloride susp. in polyvinyl alcohol sol’n.” Bull. Chem. Soc. Japan vol. 31 pp. 10-16 1958.

18. Y. Ohyama and K. Futaki “Relation betw. accel. and retard. tendencies of some active subst. in phys. ripening of silver chloride suspensions” Photo. Sci. & Eng. vol. 2 pp. 128-30 1958.

19. F. G. Russell Method of Preparing Washed Photographic Emulsions Eastman Kodak Co. Oct. 23 1956.

20. G. Russell and D. L. Oliff “Nucleic acids in gelatin” J. Phot. Sci. vol. 14 pp. 9-22 1966.

21. Process for Prod. Silver Hal. Emulsions cont. Gelatin Derivatives June 1965.

22. W. Timson A. Steigmann G. Nawn and W. Kelly “Microconstituents in gelatin etc.” Photo. Sci. & Eng. vol. 10 pp. 281-286 1966.

23. H. M. Wagner; “Competition for gelatin” Perspective vol. 4 pp. 208-15 1962.

24. H. W. Wood; “The Process of silver-digestion and implications” J. Phot. Sci. vol. 6 pp. 33-38 1958.

25. H. W. Wood; “Role of gelatin in phot. emulsions” J. Phot. Sci. vol. 9 pp. 151-6 1961.

26. T. Yano N. Itoh and S. Iguchi “Behavior of hydrophilic polymers as protective colloids for silver halide crystals Part V” J. Soc. Sci. Phot. Jap. vol. 30 no. 2 pp. 83-89 1967.

27. T. Yano N. Itoh and S. Iguchi Influence of the kind of cationic groups in polymer molecule on the growth of silver chloride crystals 1967.

Final Final: The formulas used by most dye transfer labs until wide acceptance of HC-110 around 1970.

Kodak Dk-50 and D-61a

61 gave more lift to the separations. often, the blue needed extra help.

labs that served some ad agencies always punched the seps using D-61a — also helped those chromes that were shot using the “darker is better” standard.