for another time

“I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.”
— John Steinbeck

“People are under the illusion that it’s easy…Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.”
— Brett Weston

“The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don’t know what to do with it.”
— Edward Weston

“It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.”
— Sam Abell

Ortho Rodinal: Orthonal

using rodinal as a contrast cutter for Lith films.

rodinal5 cc
.2% Benzotriazole20 cc
.1% Potassium Iodide4 cc
Water to make1 liter
soup for 4 times the “first coming”
orthonol: low contrast developer for Litho emulsions

Not used with Ilford Ortho+ that isn’t what is meant by “ortho” in this formula.

Side Note: Tricolor Printing Filters

wavelengths of RGB that most color photographic papers respond to best are the wavelengths that are passed by Kodak Wratten filters

Tricolor Separation Printing

The original color printers, as well as the recommended printing method for Type “C” papers, used the additive filters. Three exposures were made using WR98,WR99 and WR70 (alternatively 29) filters. Kodak and Fuji have since improved color separation between the Type C (RA4) color layers. Additive printing was essential to take out the ‘pumpkin’ yellows. The tricolor method kept the yellows clearer.

use the WR70 as the base exposure. The Red layer of the paper is the speed determining layer.
  • The Reproduction of Color, Hunt 5th Ed. p.177-192.
  • The Color Gamut Obtainable by the Combination of Subtractive Color Dyes. Optimum Absorption Bands as Defined by NonlinearOptimizationTechnique, J.ImagingScience, 30,9–12; by N. Ohta.
  • Brightness and Hue of Present Day Dyes in Relation to Colour Photography, by ME Clarkson and T. Vickerstaf, PhotoJ.88b,26(1948).