Category: babl

language has no meaning, words mean everything, the platform of thought is language, the mind is mapped by its words … yet change happens

How Many Pages Does It Take

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to answer the hobbyists rudimentary question:

“Can anyone give me the times to develope(sic) FB paper in Ilford Multigrade paper developer. Ilford Ilfostop and Ilford rapid fixer? Thank you!”

in the land of time and temperature, it helps to be able to take the temperature of the room.

The direct answer is: https://www.ilfordphoto.com/amfile/file/download/file/1828/product/709/

Multigrade Paper Developer diluted 1+92 minutes1.5 to 3 min useable range
Multigrade Paper Developer diluted 1+143 minutes2 to 5 minutes range
Ilford Stop bath 1+1910 secondsup to 30 seconds
Ilford Rapid Fixer 1+41 minuteup to 5 minutes
absolute beginnings for Ilford Chemistry

… after more than 300 posts in the topic, it continues. Although, they no longer even try to answer the question, instead they answer each other — address each other as adversaries in a game of King of the Mountain. Among some, it seems they are playing Liars Dice, a popular game among the barstool photographers.

The simpler the question, the longer, more convoluted the answer. After enough time, we get into our deeper selfishness — pull out our basics.

how many old timers does it take to kill a thread.

Wiley is always throwing someone out of the store: Truitt and White.

Sadly, Mr. Bill gives credit to the vainglorious, and in doing so, takes it from himself. I wonder where he worked that he managed their color systems and is unable to see the errors Wiley makes.

The large portrait chains were called Kidnappers, since they offered free, or loss leader photos, then charged increasing amounts for reprints. The largest of the chain studios was Olan Mills, doing $475million (est) in 1993. Other studios: Varden, CPI in Sears, PCA in K-Marts, American Studios in WalMarts. Approximately $5B business in portraits in the US.

Digital EZ Lazy

Posted on Posted in babl, minimum daily requirement, the fora

Digital is so easy. Film is lazy.

building a process based upon rejection blurs actions — makes it difficult to fit your own way into your own confused critical viewscape.

follow the bouncing thought:

  • no ready profile to make negative means
  • he can’t do it, so
  • he must try another route.
  • even though, digital is too easy.

In the Blur World “anybody becomes a fine art photographer” using digital, since it is too easy to make pictures. While also being too frustrating for him to make an inverted negative on his own. Sadly, for him, it seems he wasn’t shown how to invert —

His problem is his own until he tells you what to do. And he does. As they grow, they reduce knowledge and awareness (narrowing towards nothing — pure noise).

Digital is too easy; just not easy enough.