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RalphLambrecht · Nov 20, 2017

I'm conducting an introductoryB&W darkroom class in Cologne next April and I'm looking for a good handout; I remember a processing poster by Kodak or Ilford but can't find it online. Does anybody have a copy or link?

David Allen · Nov 20, 2017

Hi Ralph,

I know what you mean but I have never seen anything online (probably they are so old nobody ever digitised them).

What I have found is very useful for my students once they have seen the process once is the illustration from Wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Photographic_processing.jpg together with a blow-by-blow / second-by-second data sheet of exactly the processing sequence that they have just learnt (I have sent an example to your gmail account)

Bests,

David.
www.dsallen.de

mgb74 · Nov 20, 2017

RalphLambrecht said:
I'm conducting an introductoryB&W darkroom class in Cologne next April and I'm looking for a good handout; I remember a processing poster by Kodak or Ilford but can't find it online. Does anybody have a copy or link?

Kodak Publication AJ-3 ("How to Process Film") might be useful. It also addresses making a proof print. You might look here as well.

Peter Schrager · Nov 20, 2017

handout? give them 2 rolls of black and white film expose develop print....

RalphLambrecht · Nov 21, 2017

David Allen said:
Hi Ralph,

I know what you mean but I have never seen anything online (probably they are so old nobody ever digitised them).

What I have found is very useful for my students once they have seen the process once is the illustration from Wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Photographic_processing.jpg together with a blow-by-blow / second-by-second data sheet of exactly the processing sequence that they have just learnt (I have sent an example to your gmail account)

Bests,

David.
www.dsallen.de

thanks Allen

RalphLambrecht · Nov 22, 2017

Peter Schrager said:
handout? give them 2 rolls of black and white film expose develop print....

that is the general idea; still... good to have some instructions in writing when they try to do it on their own in the future.

jeffreyg · Nov 22, 2017

Ralph
I almost hate to say it on the analog section but there are a number of videos on youtube for developing film. The students could watch on their cellphones. I don't know the content of your course but they could "waste" a roll of film and load it on to a reel and do a dry run in the light first.

http://www.jeffreyglasser.com/

David Brown · Nov 22, 2017

jeffreyg said:
... there are a number of videos on youtube for developing film.

Yes there are. And, in my not so humble opinion, most of them are at best anecdotal, and at worst, incorrect. They make it difficult for those of use still teaching darkroom processes to fill our classes. I think what Ralph and I (and others) wish to do is give our students vetted source material, rather than a cell phone video of "this is how I do it."

RalphLambrecht said:
... good to have some instructions in writing when they try to do it on their own in the future ...

YMMV

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