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Ektalure


Beat me to it!
On that note, I've started adding another Mees book to the Classics Library on TLF, The Photography of Colored Objects. It's the 11th edition and attributed as a generic Kodak publication, but the first many additions were attributed to Mees.
 
Hah! You showed me to it! That was a terrific read. And you've got a great bibliography there for me to work through. Thank you!
-Bob
 

There is an update to this in Evans, Hanson and Brewer on color imaging. These guys discuss everything.

http://camerabooks.com/Products/Pri...s-spc-of-spc-Color-spc--fslsh--spc-Evans.aspx

And, the Mees book is good but very very old fashioned. It has a number of errors. For one humorous example, the "diagram" of the 1st floor of B-59 is not. It is the 5th floor. You see, the first floor has an entrance and this diagram does not show it.

Anyhow, I was unaware of Kit's extensions to the book. He gave me a copy a while back and it did not go into the detail I thought would be of use here, as it was more directed to historians IMHO. Kit is a great guy, but has vanished from our contacts here and has not come to lunch groups at GEH for the last few years.

PE
 

I have no idea how it was obtained, but often that "dead" look was obtained by addition of methyl methacrylate beads to the surface overcoat. The problem was that they could come out of the gelatin matrix in continuous processes and create a sludge like material on rollers.

PE
 

Is that why it felt like "sandpaper" at times?.......Thanks...Regards!
 

Denise has just added the second edition of the Guide to Surface Characteristics book to The Light Farm site. The edition is in a pdf file in book format so it can be printed if a hard copy is desired. You can see the EK history on how paper and baryta were made, how the surfaces (texture, gloss) were made, what the EK lettering systems identified (Ektalure G, for example), etc.

Kit