noticed: 4,19..26

in zipping through the emails and clicking on many links I come across many things and always intend to save them to show them here .. mostly I don’t; they get im’d or em’d to small numbers of realones.

this time, clearing out my draft box, an old link that came via a gallery notice months ago. rather than just delet it, i added another recent orphan technote..

https://www.vojtechslama.com/ He lives in Brno, in an apartment above Café Flexaret. He opened it together with his wife Tereza in 2013 with the intention to create a place for jazz, folk concerts, photography exhibitions and other pleasures. — his note


Techday — no association, merely a note in passing since peopke are hitting my d76 and FOMA pages. This is from a patent for microphen type developer used by US Airforce.

The notes in the patent are more useful to me than the formulations of the patent .. The notes to Kodak cover how to package a dry formulation of some thing like a D76 ..

this patent provides the process method for achieving a very high speed emulsion without excessive development such as you would get if you were using microphen — foma’s developer of choice for their EI ratings … 

The Artemis joy ride 

I can hardly wait until they’re back and develop their films so we can see what the real pictures of reality look like .

for something sc-diff: https://youtu.be/1sd26pWhfmg

pyro whores

the page2 of glycin-gone

every war has a whore patch. The bleachers, the sidelines — those who can’t do, cheer, claim, proclaim. With nothing but hearsay, they say much. They are without nous.

so what . so what’s the difference . so what’s it to me ? The chatter clique dilutes the craft; frequently out of fear of losing standing, even though the standing is among the multitude of casual crafters as intent on social gossip as they are in advancing their skills. They replacing experience with gossip. These back-benchers share another common habit – they dislike “art-speak” — even as they fail to grasp the disdain of their “snobby-hobby” formulas.

Tanning developers longest use was in dye-transfer (imbibition) printing. There are many posts on this topic on webionaire.

PMK supply is in decline, as is most of the chemical based photographic world. The on-again, off-again extremes of demand make reasoning about making chems for general consumption a risk. Prepared chems are profitable, but not risk-less. Researchers have little opportunity to recover from a single failure, which is likely why they supply standard solutions. Deeper budgets have already explored those hills. Maps of success are available at the counter.

A moersch product I’ve used within the past year. (2025). Note how long the developer last during development

venom, vengeance among the Camp followers. craft culture Delayed until vacation or retirement. A Hobby to fill time … Sharpening pencils hoping someday you’ll have something to write .

[ Parkinson’s Law of Triviality – which states that, “The time spent on any item of an agenda is in inverse proportion to the sum involved,” with a local example where it took the Singapore City Council “six hours to pick a new man for the gasworks and two and a half minutes to approve a $100 million budget ]