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Ansco Formulas/PDFs

Neanderman

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Ian Grant

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Kodak only bought the graphic arts division of Anitec, so no they wouldn't have the copyright of the Anscp Formulae.

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Dumb question, perhaps...

What is meant by the terms clean-working and soft-working? I've never seen 'dirty-working' formulae, and maybe a 'hard' vs soft one would be high contrast...or...?

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D76 isn't "clean working" you get a very slightly higher base fog level, some of the PQ formulas used for machine processing were very "clean" working.

You can see the difference with the negatives. Soft and hard is of course the contrast, papers were also sold as soft & hard. So ID-3 was Ilfords Soft developer, and ID-14 the Hard-Contrast developer.

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