I am given to understand that eastern European industry made a Dektol clone widely distributed in eastern Europe during the cold war era, so that might to a way for our friend from Slovenia to experience the magic. Some one from eastern Europe may wish to confirm this for us.
I don´t know for sure, but could this be Calbe N113 from the former GDR?
I am given to understand that eastern European industry made a Dektol clone widely distributed in eastern Europe during the cold war era, so that might to a way for our friend from Slovenia to experience the magic. Some one from eastern Europe may wish to confirm this for us.
I don't want to be nitpicking BUT Yugoslavia was in front of the Iron Curtain during the cold war era,- own photo company in Croatia - Fotokemika.
EFKE film for example was sold by one or two suppliers in the US in a few batches back with about an 1986 exiry date, and then I did not see it advertised again for near 10 years. Only within about 5 years of their demise did I see anyone selling their paper in North America.
I make up 1 liter of working solution at a time (11 ml stock + 22 ml distilled water). The working solution stored in a PET plastic bottle squeezed to remove air and stored in the dark works well for a couple of months.
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It looks like the ratio of water to stock is 2:1 from your figures but isn't that 333ml stock plus 666ml of water for 1L
11ml +22ml which you quote = 33ml which is a way less than 1L or have I missed something?
pentaxuser
My guess is he meant ounces, which would give 33 ounces that is close to i liter. Why we're mixing measuring systems though ...
It's been around for decades, was available in just about any store that handled photo gear(I used to buy it at a hardware store), cheap, and most of all, it was from Kodak.
It looks like the ratio of water to stock is 2:1 from your figures but isn't that 333ml stock plus 666ml of water for 1L
11ml +22ml which you quote = 33ml which is a way less than 1L or have I missed something?
pentaxuser
Ah yes the old measuring systems problem. I think you are right but is that British ounces or American ounces or did we have the same ounces, just different gallons?
You( not you personally but the U.S.) used to laugh at and quite rightly so or at best regard as quaint our old British currency which was 12 pennies in a shilling but twenty shillings in a pound so 240 pennies in a pound with the good old "half-crown" thrown and of course we had guineas in which we paid our legal profession and our tailors for good suits. There never was a guinea coin of course. It was equal to 21 shillings. Why?? ( see witch burning for the logic)
Imperial(is that from when we had an empire?) and U.S. measurement systems really belong to or should belong to the era of bubonic plague and the odd session of witch burning
I now think in terms of centigrade but it was a long hard road to get there. We need to relieve our kids of such suffering. Never getting access to the destructive drug of imperial measurement is better than years of "cold turkey"
pentaxuser
Well, is Dektol really that popular?
When I started photography in the 70s I did not even know of Dektol. I actually was most surprised back then when finding amongst old stuff in a professional darkroom a tin can with some Kodak developer. But I would never have thought of using a commercial developer based on powder.
The only "powder" product I saw on the shelves (and bought) was Sodiumthiosulphate.
Canned developers all those years remained an odd obscurity to me. Everybody was using liquid concentrate. Typically from Tetenal.
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