Revised Edition Of The Darkroom Cookbook

Tom Taylor · Oct 3, 2015

FWIW, a revised edition of the Darkroom Cookbook is now at the editors and corrections/additions to it can be made if submitted within the next 1 or 2 weeks. After that it will be too late. So if you have found something in the 3d edition that you think needs to be corrected, I suggest that you send Steve Anchell an email with your evidence. Steve forwarded my email on B&W reversal processing with photo attached to David Wood and I plan to redo my experiment this weekend and forward the results.

Thomas

Black Dog · Oct 3, 2015

Thanks for sharing that-I bought the first edition and it's getting pretty well worn by now!

RalphLambrecht · Oct 3, 2015

Tom Taylor said:
FWIW, a revised edition of the Darkroom Cookbook is now at the editors and corrections/additions to it can be made if submitted within the next 1 or 2 weeks. After that it will be too late. So if you have found something in the 3d edition that you think needs to be corrected, I suggest that you send Steve Anchell an email with your evidence. Steve forwarded my email on B&W reversal processing with photo attached to David Wood and I plan to redo my experiment this weekend and forward the results.

Thomas

Thanks for sharing; it's one of my favorite photo books

Tom Taylor · Oct 3, 2015

Mine also. I hope that the Cookbook is continually up-dated and expanded in the future. It is a valuable resource in what is becoming a lost art.

Thomas

Tom Taylor · Oct 3, 2015

Google his name and you will find his email address.

Thomas

Tom Taylor · Oct 7, 2015

Ran across it at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Darkroom-Cookbook-Reissue-Alternative-Photography/dp/113812608X/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=

I have the 2008 edition which has 359 pages so there are 41 more pages in the 3d Revised edition. There's still time to get those suggestions for corrections in.

Thomas

Chris Livsey · Oct 7, 2015

If there are 41 more pages unless the font size has changed that would suggest to me more than a revised third edition. Calling it a fourth edition would surely stimulate more sales, will people spot the revision word and if they do it usually indicates spelling and minor factual corrections not 41 more pages? Just sems an odd decision to me but then I am not an author nor a publisher I just buy them.

Krockmitaine · Feb 2, 2016

Yep ! The DRCB, 4th ed. is available for pre-order on Amazon !. The title will be release this March!

Chris Livsey · Feb 3, 2016

"heads up" as we apparently have to say these days , is appreciated.

cmacd123 · Feb 11, 2016

Confirmed that My pre-order exists for the paperback version at amazon.ca

Chris Livsey · Mar 5, 2016

Amazon UK now quoting April 19th release.

Wayne · Mar 5, 2016

Always wondered why the title on Amazon says "Alternative Process Photography" in parentheses. Its really not al alternative process book, unless everything that isn't digital is now alternative. And I'd argue that point. Its really just about a variety of run of the mill DIY, largely silver-gelatin photography.

TheToadMen · Mar 6, 2016

Wayne said:
Always wondered why the title on Amazon says "Alternative Process Photography" in parentheses. Its really not al alternative process book, unless everything that isn't digital is now alternative. And I'd argue that point. Its really just about a variety of run of the mill DIY, largely silver-gelatin photography.

But to Amazon anything non-digital probably is. And maybe they hope to sell more this way or al least warn digital shooters about the content of this book ....

Chris Livsey · Mar 6, 2016

Wayne said:
And I'd argue that point. Its really just about a variety of run of the mill DIY, largely silver-gelatin photography.

My take was that it is the inclusion of formulas that are not merely copies of commercially available formulas that was the "alternative". Remember the user group of analog workers on this forum are a skewed sample, the DIY mixing alone would be regarded as "alternative" I suspect by many others.
What those here regard, and you are correct, as alternative process is a different definition but the "process" part is misleading I agree to the groups likely to purchase the volume.
I like your suggestion that any process that involves capturing images by a chemical rather than an electrical process is alternative !!!

Wayne · Mar 6, 2016

Chris Livsey said:
I like your suggestion that any process that involves capturing images by a chemical rather than an electrical process is alternative !!!

Oh no, that's not my suggestion. We're heading toward a world where that is the case but I'm only being dragged along against my will, kicking and screaming.

Wayne · Mar 6, 2016

TheToadMen said:
But to Amazon anything non-digital probably is. And maybe they hope to sell more this way or al least warn digital shooters about the content of this book ....

Yeah that could be, since most digishooters don't even know film exists anymore. But I'm a stickler for meaning, and this use skews the meaning of alternative. Although as Chris points out this might be considered alternative to the ignorant masses, I think the word most of them would use for traditional photography is "obsolete".

RalphLambrecht · Mar 7, 2016

Tom Taylor said:
FWIW, a revised edition of the Darkroom Cookbook is now at the editors and corrections/additions to it can be made if submitted within the next 1 or 2 weeks. After that it will be too late. So if you have found something in the 3d edition that you think needs to be corrected, I suggest that you send Steve Anchell an email with your evidence. Steve forwarded my email on B&W reversal processing with photo attached to David Wood and I plan to redo my experiment this weekend and forward the results.

Thomas

I hope there is something init about monobath developers.I heard that New55 published their formula for R3 but ,I can't find it anywhere.

TheToadMen · Mar 7, 2016

RalphLambrecht said:
I hope there is something init about monobath developers.I heard that New55 published their formula for R3 but ,I can't find it anywhere.

There is also a R5 Monobath developer now: "Note that R5 replaces R3 and is a new formula that permits agitation. Otherwise it is very similar to R3, and it looks the same in our tests."
See: http://new55project.blogspot.nl/2015/03/r3-monobath-developer-resource-page.html

The recipe for R3 is supposed to be (something like):
" 16 ml HC-110 USA concentrate (EU version = different concentration)
50 ml household ammonia (ammonium hydroxide, 5% solution)
10 ml Ilford Rapid Fixer concentrate
water to make 256 ml
Mixed by adding most of the water to the HC-110 concentrate, then ammonia, then fixer, then remainder of water to make up volume. Heated to 75 F in an external hot water bath.
IMPORTANT: Be certain the ammonia used is a 5% concentration. Test it first using an ammonia hydrometer available through ebay or Amazon."

See: http://darkroomist.com/2015/06/04/thoughts-on-new55s-r3-monobath-developer/
and
http://new55project.blogspot.nl/2010/01/donal-qualls-successful-monobath.html

I've seen other recipes being discussed last year somewhere, but can't find it anymore on the big www.

(BTW: no personal experiences with R5 or R3).

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