I have just finished reading the above. It's in a downloadable form on the Silverprint site under "Yesterday once more".
It's both an entertaining and educational read of photographic life circa 1983 and in effect the origins of Silverprint. Some of the sections may already be of historic interest only but a large part of it on developing and printing will be useful to those still using old emulsions and developers especially Rodinal users.
Interesting sections AGFA and on FB v RC as well.
It's been scanned into pdf in the exact form it was produced prior to "computers". The text is typewritten( remember those machines?) and diagrams are hand produced.
This was done less than 25 years ago - seems like yesterday to me- and yet it already has the feel of a book from another era.
It's 106 pages and about 11MB so only a few minutes download even at my snail's pace broadband speed.
Thanks Martin for an entertaining read and some especially useful info on HP5 and Perceptol as well as film speed determination and dev times.
Give it a look-see. You can dip and skip as you please if it's not all relevant or entertaining to you but I don't think you'll be disappointed.
We have several "characters" in the best sense of the word on APUG and I'd rate Martin Reed as one of them.
pentaxuser
It's both an entertaining and educational read of photographic life circa 1983 and in effect the origins of Silverprint. Some of the sections may already be of historic interest only but a large part of it on developing and printing will be useful to those still using old emulsions and developers especially Rodinal users.
Interesting sections AGFA and on FB v RC as well.
It's been scanned into pdf in the exact form it was produced prior to "computers". The text is typewritten( remember those machines?) and diagrams are hand produced.
This was done less than 25 years ago - seems like yesterday to me- and yet it already has the feel of a book from another era.
It's 106 pages and about 11MB so only a few minutes download even at my snail's pace broadband speed.
Thanks Martin for an entertaining read and some especially useful info on HP5 and Perceptol as well as film speed determination and dev times.
Give it a look-see. You can dip and skip as you please if it's not all relevant or entertaining to you but I don't think you'll be disappointed.
We have several "characters" in the best sense of the word on APUG and I'd rate Martin Reed as one of them.
pentaxuser
