A mortified mea culpa as I fall on my errata sword. Eagle-eyed reader Alexander Elkholy has found two mistakes in my new book, The Handmade Silver Gelatin Emulsion Print. One of them is horrifying—a numerical error. The recipe for chlorobromide paper is wrong. On page 186, the salted gelatin step should be 60 ml water and 2.5 g gelatin, not 60 ml and 50 g. The mistake is so serious and so random it’s hard to know how it happened. It’s the type of error that haunts the nightmares of scientists. The recipe is correct in my Blurb book, free to read in Blurb preview, p 117. The second mistake is the reference to an illustration. On page 150, it should read 13.17, rather than 15.17.
I can only hope these are the only two mistakes, but that’s probably wishful thinking. I'll start an errata section on The Light Farm website today. I'm giving a $25 Photographers' Formulary gift certificate to anyone who finds a mistake. Contact me first at editor@thelightfarm.com. Thank you and apologies.
I can only hope these are the only two mistakes, but that’s probably wishful thinking. I'll start an errata section on The Light Farm website today. I'm giving a $25 Photographers' Formulary gift certificate to anyone who finds a mistake. Contact me first at editor@thelightfarm.com. Thank you and apologies.
