Ansco Formulas/PDFs

[Neanderman]

Added that to the original one:

Dead Link Removed

And I had an old one online a long time ago:

http://www.mattosbornephotography.com/film_chart.jpg

Thanks! It's interesting that Commercial Orthochromatic shared the same code as Tri-X. And here I always figured the manufacturers coordinated those.

Ed

 

[Ian Grant]

"The Ansco plant in Binghamton had been a vacant lot for several years now the last owner was Kodak who tore it down, I think nobody cares..EC"

I believe the last user of that plant was a company called Anitec who made film and plates for the graphic arts. They were swallowed up by Kodak a long with Polychrome. Anitec I do believe was the old GAF company. So Kodak would own those copyrights.

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

Ian

 

[Murray@uptowngallery]

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...?

Thanks

 

[Ian Grant]

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.

Ian

 

[Murray@uptowngallery]

Thanks, Ian.