Emulsion Makers Book Club, Selection One: Photographic Emulsions

Signs & fragments

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Signs & fragments

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Summer corn, summer storm

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Summer corn, summer storm

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Horizon, summer rain

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Horizon, summer rain

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$12.66

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$12.66

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Does anyone else here wonder if PE's avatar and Umut's avatar were both shot in the same studio?
 

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Matt;

IDK which photo this was, but it was taken in about 1997. If it was a pass photo, it was taken in the Security Services Office at KP in Building 28. If it was one of the retirement photos it was either taken at Kodak Office or at the KRL Photo Studio by Earl Kage.

If Umut can match any of that, then maybe! :D

I don't look like that today, courtesy of 5 years of steroids.

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It was taken at a studio for my american visa. I was working as a manager of Heidelberg Newspaper Printing Machines. We had a lear jet and when something wrong with the machines , jet flies to France , get the part and the repairman and flies back . I had money to buy a 8 meters long steel yacht but today I quit working and shoot for a dime. One of my friend saw my digital engraving on visa and said that hey they put your picture like an american president :smile: I dont look like it today , I am older .
 
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haha, that's too funny... MattKing, honestly, I've wondered the same thing :laugh:
 
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I, on the other hand, look more and more like my avatar with each passing year. I think it's very important to honestly share with the entire world each wrinkle, sag, and mysterious sproutings of acrylic fibers.
 

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Denise,

noticed the Silver Gelatin book in your literature list. It is now in a reprinted edition. I've found it invaluable for various questions, especially when you don't have a computer handy in the darkroom.

Still reading the curriculum, now on chapter 3. :smile:
 
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Denise, Still reading the curriculum, now on chapter 3. :smile:

Excellent! I still hope we can have a meaningful, educational discussion here, but even if that's not in the stars, the book is invaluable on a personal level.

Thanks for the heads-up on Silver Gelatin. It's a great book. I can't seem to find the new (i.e. affordable) reprint, though. The copies I see available on the internet are still in the >$100 range. The book should definitely be in everyone's library, so I'll post a notice asap after I see good prices.

I'm in the process of reworking the literature list. Like everything else on TLF, it's gotten big and unwieldy. It will soon be alphabetized, and sorted into categories around accessibility, particularly the titles available as Google books and/or TLF books.

I'm taking the 'big and unwieldy' issue seriously. I have a boatload of new recipes and related information waiting for posting until I figure out the best ways not only to make TLF maximally usable, and also to make it easier to maintain the site. Html-crunching has got to be one of the curses of the modern age :tongue:.

On related notes: Over the weekend, I posted the searchable .pdf that Terry Holsinger made of The Photographic Emulsion.

http://www.thelightfarm.com/Map/LiteratureList/LiteratureListPart1.htm.

Also, I recently added a new section to TLF on old technical booklets. They are very well worth reading. (For anyone interested in this sort of thing, of course :smile: )

http://www.thelightfarm.com/Map/Booklets/BookletsPart1.htm
 

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I don't know if the book is exclusive to Silverprint, but at £20, it seems a bit better than $100. Possibly, the shipping from UK kills the deal, I don't know. As far as I can see, it is a straight reprint.

http://www.silverprint.co.uk/ProductByGroup.asp?PrGrp=163

Once upon a time I was a html-crunching slave... with a less than perfect typing speed too. :smile:
 
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Of course! Go to the source. (Stage direction: bang head on desk :blink:) I'll update my lit list.

Search engines are mysterious beasts. I wonder what it takes to get the new version of Silver Gelatin to come up on Google. I hope it's not a problem that's about to get worse.

Congratulations on escaping your html slavery! Escaping computers, in general, is an intriguing thought. I was adding up the time in a week that disappears in front of a monitor, and I'm considering leaving the monster turned off most of the time. Doubt I could follow through on it, but still... 'intriguing thought'.
 

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"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

Isaac Asimov
 

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Bill - those are my feeling exactly.

Have you notice that todays kids (Yes, I guess I'm officially an "old guy" now) don't wear wrist watches - they look to their cell phones instead of thier watch?
 
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Kirk-I am so old that I still refuse to carry a cellphone. I am not available to anyone and everyone 24/7. A bee in a hive.
Bill
 
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Hi, All. I hope everyone had a nice Solstice.

Quick note: I've finished the re-tooling of the Light Farm literature list. http://thelightfarm.com/Map/LiteratureList/LiteratureListPart1.htm, including the search'able The Photographic Emulsion, provided by Terry Holsinger. I'll ask a favor, if I may. I've tried to find all titles that are available as free reads on the computer, and/or reprints. If you happen upon any I've missed, could you let me know? More and more titles come up all the time.

Bill and Kirk: You're behind the times. The lines have blurred to invisibility between computer browser, email, telephone, camera, clock, and calculator. All one little magic box. No 'fear' here, but I do admit to a doubletake when I see someone stroking their phone like Gollum with his 'precious' :D.
 

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As a side note: am behind times too, with Kirk and Bill.
 

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Don't think I'm a total Luddite - I do own a cell phone, and I do occasionally carry it. But it's almost always turned off. I know it's selfish of me, but it's for me to to make calls on, not for everyone to be able to contact me at any time of day.

That said, my wife reminds me that I'm living in the 80s. And I have to agree - I just bought an E-Mu Emulator II sampling keyboard from 1984. It's not completely orginal as it has one of original two 5.25" floppy drives replaced with a 3.5" floppy. You know it's hard to find 3.5" DS/DD floppies these days? Actually, any 3.5" DS/HD disks are getting harder to findI've been using DS/HD ones as the Emulator and my Roland S-50 sampler both were made before high density floppies were commercially available and they just assume the HD disks are Double Density disks.

Sorry for the off-topic!
 
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The cell phone is the 21st century pocket watch... everything just comes full circle.
 

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The cell phone is the 21st century pocket watch... everything just comes full circle.

Aah, if it only had all those little gears... (Very OT: my favourite one is this; http://www.johnsphones.com/ - not perfect but close.)

Denise,

good to see that the literature list is revised. And the .pdf file of the book will come in handy, I'll print it and read off-line. Just don't get me started on the topic of the virtues of books or the feel of nice watercolour papers... :smile:

And I loved the Gollum reference - spot on!
 
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