Lachlan, I have the Dignan Photographic 150 do-it-yourself BLACK AND WHITE Popular Photographic Formulas, as well as his Simplified Colour Processing Formulas.
There are some interesting sections in which different formulae are grouped and discussed, with their good and possible bad points.
I think the B&W book is/was good value in it's time and is still quite good but there are better books of developing B&W & Colour for that matter, if that is what you are looking for.
I also have Developing by K.I. Jacobson & R.E. Jacobson eighteenth edition Mar 1972, revised 1976, updated 1978 and reprinted in 1980.
This book is a far better proposition if you are like me, not that great chemistry wise and wishing to be able to do things in the darkroom anyway you wish. I haven't found a better book for the layman, or technician, it discusses virtually everything concerned with developing film.
The inside cover blurb states," DEVELOPING is the best established text and reference work on its subject in the world". From my own small view of the photographic world, I agree with that statement.
I looked at the Cook Book when it came out but couldn't find anything that was not in Developing.
Dignan's book though is very handy if you are wanting to bone up on some interesting things that have been done in days past. My favourite is procesing in 1.5 seconds at 170ºF, in this process the developing was done in 0.2 seconds.
The book itself is a plastic spiral type job in an American size not A4 of 106 pages.
Mick.
I love old formula books!
