how do you say "developing time" in your native language?

BetterSense · Nov 4, 2015

I love how many languages are printed on Kodak developer. I only remember "developing time" and "Entwicklungzeit" which is fun to say.

What are some bits of photographic terminology in different languages that you recognize and feel are noteworthy or charming,etc ? Japanese gave us "boke", and I always notice the "falten" directions on 120 film rolls.

Dr Croubie · Nov 4, 2015

in aussie we just say "she'll be right"
(at least, I do when I'm using stand-dev and forget about it for a few hours)

IloveTLRs · Nov 4, 2015

Personally, I never use the term "boke". I know it means blurred, but I never heard it used that way.

Terje Lindal · Nov 4, 2015

In Norwegian it is "Framkallingstid"

AgX · Nov 4, 2015

"Kodakske"

Flemish for (consumer) camera

loman · Nov 4, 2015

In danish it's almost exactly the same as in norwegian, we just replace an "l" for a "d", so it's:

"fremkaldningstid"

Venlig Hilsen (kind Regards)

Mads

foen · Nov 4, 2015

In italian : "tempo di sviluppo"

Mr_Flibble · Nov 4, 2015

AgX said:
"Kodakske"

Flemish for (consumer) camera

That confused me the first time one of my Flemish friends said he had an old Kodak he wanted to give to me....which turned out to not be a Kodak at all. Another interesting occurance of a brand name becoming the generic term for someting. Like BAND-AID®

Dutch for developing time is "Ontwikkelingstijd" or "Ontwikkeltijd"

sergioto · Nov 4, 2015

"tiempo de revelado" in Spanish

fdonadio · Nov 4, 2015

how do you say "developing time" in your native language?

"Tempo de revelação", in Portuguese.

(I hope Tapatalk doesn't mess with the accented characters!)

Thomas Bertilsson · Nov 4, 2015

Terje Lindal said:
In Norwegian it is "Framkallingstid"

Us copycats in Sweden add one consonant and say 'Framkallningstid'.

Anon Ymous · Nov 4, 2015

"Χρόνος εμφάνισης" in greek, but you wouldn't be able to read it so... "chronos emfanisis".

AgX · Nov 4, 2015

As I undertand this thread is less about "developing" but charming foreign language terms.

There is dictionary thread somewhere at Apug with a list of photographic terms translated in several languages.

Ko.Fe. · Nov 4, 2015

Время проявки (vremia proiavki) in Zorki land.

sagai · Nov 4, 2015

"Developing time" in hungarian for photography purposes is
"Előhívási idő" that is word by word more like pre-developing time.

Rhodes · Nov 4, 2015

Tempo de Revelação, in portuguese!

avortex · Nov 4, 2015

"Temps de revetllat", in Catalan.

Sirius Glass · Nov 4, 2015

I say "developing time".

RSalles · Dec 11, 2015

Alea jacta est : in Latin

Cheers,

Renato

Sirius Glass · Dec 11, 2015

RSalles said:
Alea jacta est : in Latin

Cheers,

Renato

I did not know that Julius Ceaser processed film. When he crossed the Rubicon he said "Alea jacta est", ["The die is cast"]

Arklatexian · Dec 12, 2015

Developing time ibn your native language?

Sirius Glass said:
I say "developing time".

By golly! I have heard those same words used in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. Does that mean we could converse with you Californians should we make a trip out there? I have wondered in the past when I noticed you spell Hasselblad just like we do!.......Regards!

Old-N-Feeble · Dec 12, 2015

^^^ Nope, in Texan it's deeevelopin' tahm, ya'll.

Xmas · Dec 12, 2015

Dr Croubie said:
in aussie we just say "she'll be right"
(at least, I do when I'm using stand-dev and forget about it for a few hours)

I steal the clock work kitchen timer it only does one hour or less.

RSalles · Dec 12, 2015

Sirius Glass said:
I did not know that Julius Ceaser processed film. When he crossed the Rubicon he said "Alea jacta est", ["The die is cast"]

Hi Sirius,

In a sense of a point of "no return", as when the developer is poured inside the tank some unpredictable factors can play, as the thermometer have entered in hibernation, the tap water have been "treated that day with fresh chloro, by mistake you've made a double exposure or opened the dark slide with the shutter cocked, the dark brown developer was really exhausted, etc... and you just can't go back to the "latent image" state of the negative and start from scratch. That's it,

Cheers,

Renato

RobC · Dec 12, 2015

IloveTLRs said:
Personally, I never use the term "boke". I know it means blurred, but I never heard it used that way.

That dictionary is plain wrong. Boke is the english spelling of the Japanese word (some yank turned that into Bokeh in some delusional attempt to claim it for themselves). In japanese it means blurred of fuzzy (more or less). But it is also sometimes used in japanese as a derogatary word for old people by saying that someone is a bit boke. i.e. they have gone a bit fuzzy in the head.

What people don't seem to have any clue about is that boke as spoken in Scotland, means to gag or vomit and has nothing to do with photography or being fuzzy or blurred. The straight english translation of boke from the japanese would be blurred or fuzzy and not "boke". Some numpty got it wrong and made up a word based on how the japanese sounds.

how do you say "developing time" in your native language?

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