callier confusion

Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.”  ― Socrates

one of the optiquals… using light for means, by means other than image-formed pattern. Sometimes the H&D curve is more bendable than others. More details follow…

:the mysterious Q is called upon from the shadows as explanation for almost any effect. What does it explain? Do you use it… that other light; that other exposure summation. Think weeding … sometimes it makes tea.

Photography is a simplified form of drawing; let the thing draw itself.. the law, rather, the principle of exposure holds for most of the time. Like all real things the exposure rule varies. This variance provides confusion or useful options, even if you don’t know the names of the various effects. Reject before using is a rule of turds. Well known, widely influential resources gain stature by passing along their approach; their dictionary, complete with conceptual restrictions takes hold.

if not controlled, at least understood — edge of distinction —

More importantly, how can you use exposure effects in control of the image. How to manage the different points of the curves. Tone-bending, by using effects discovered and refined by early photographers building out the field of light sensitive surfaces.

Flash and Burn characteristics of the enlarger. The slide-set introduces the concepts of controlling some of the HD shape by means of altering single contrast emulsions, such as films. All dye labs had full understanding of these principles. Some of the information carried over into the fixed grade BW darkrooms.

patent simmon
Early darkroom lamphead patent for a condenser enlarger. 1948

Flare up. The other words, effects found upon deeper reading into the the literature of exposing silver materials. If you were a designer of systems, or an extremely inventive user, these terms, often named after their initial discoverer, will take you along the full path of the characteristic curve; enough so, that you could begin to design exposure making and measuring systems.

Flare: The worst element in photography. The projected light that escapes around the image and causes fog and distortion of the original image. — Bob Pace.

  • MEES. c. E.: The Theory of the Photographic Process, p. 849; Macmillan. New York (1945):
  • and GOETZ, A., BROWN, F. W.: Light Scattering and the Graininess of Photographic Emulsions, J. Soc. Mot. Pict. Engrs., 39; 375 (1942).
  • SMETHURST, P. C.: Scattered Light, Image Gradation, and Surface Treated Lenses; Brit. J. Photogr., 88; 427, 434 (1941).
  • G. Kornfeld, “The Herschel Effect and the Structure and Stability of the Photographic Latent Image*,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. 39, 490-494 (1949).
  • Zachoval, L. A contribution to the theory of some photographic effects. Czech J Phys 8, 214–217 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01603694

uses.. filed borders to introduce gate-flare : edge of framing gate induced flare .

Additional References

Using means knowing the difference between a silver contact and silver projected image in common darkroom printing. Dye-transfer is BW made complex by the number of steps; permutations seemingly beyond understanding. We learned the difference between silver testing and color, dye testing. The AIM, targets used had effects that could confuse ones initial learning — without luck, or well directed starting information it could seem a fools burden… pushing snowballs up a volcano.

Become alert to difference in response between instrument reading and material action: measurement may not predict fully, accurately. What you measure may not be what you get — refine, or re-define. Dyes aren’t silver; this meant that what we tested changed by stage of the process; was it silver, or dye stage material.

Applications and Implications —

exposing adox lupex : https://www.adox.de/Technical_Informations/TA_LUPEX(EN).pdf

reading adox contrast and understanding: http://www.adox.de/Technical_Informations/MCC_Datasheet.pdf

AN: splasboard processes

zeiss paper: https://lenspire.zeiss.com/photo/app/uploads/2018/12/en_About-the-reduction-of-reflections-of-camera-lenses.pdf

chemical photo: stuff

January 2025. GETTING STUFF. supplies in a ebb market.

NOTES:
too much… getting too much.
choice must be clearly known to be choice.

Shops selling items for the darkroom.
In Germany, Hans O. Mahn GmbH & Co. KG brings out the Rollei products through the website Macodirect which also sells Adox products. The website Fotoimpex seems closely related to – and sells all – Adox products –does not sell Rollei papers

Stores:
the wet lab is drying out; few places remain, but here are some online sources

Prior Posts:

D-76 Chickenbones

Have you heard Rumors of a perfect marriage between emulsion and chemistry producing the ideal silver image. Me too. The first time was in 1960.

It has been the goal of mothers of invention for a century. Taint gonna happen; that doesn’t mean you will reset your goals.
D-76 as D-76 becomes very old; 100+ rolls in a 5 gallon tank you might see bromide buildup and so therefore the slow down of the film. This is the result of metol ‘dropping’ –The chicken bones method was to replenish aged D76 with D-23.

Research Shows (its age): The research published was done prior to 1980, other than in patents, so the relevance to modern emulsions is limited, since it’s the contents of the emulsion that are aging the processing chemicals. The only company that could survive the dead ends of basic research is Fujifilm, and they have no reason, no motivation, to research the process in chemistry of black and white. Actually, not even for color– their riding on a profitable horse that is on its last legs.

color bibliography

patents in this century are the only source of research results and they are few– The age of research is over, for analog.

The final coaters of film Kodak Ilford foma, have to float on past research. So do you. Hearsay for a possible solution to your imaging.

My suggestion is to find a better imagination method, but that won’t satisfy your need to ride the Analog Bounce.

Extending the suggestion: DK-50 served me in my first years and jobs. It is also the developer I’ve used to teach the Baker’s Dozen of printers who have experienced the differences between PRE and POST masking. On the realway condition that you are part of the Film revival, you are using 35mm ASA
black-and-white film that you shoot and scan, then rodinal will meet your needs to produce a negative to digitize.
The simplest path to a silver negative is shoot at box speed using the box developer; in other words read the instructions of the emulsion maker; see what they designed the system to do. Fomapan is frequently maligned as carrying an “inflated” speed rating. Their 200 speed film “should be” 100, according to the kin of the internet. These people don’t need directions; they have opinions. Please, read this datasheet.

note the speed difference between D-76 and Microphen. Microphen giving much more speed to this film.