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 enlarge | Authors: Steve Anchell, Bill Troop
Brand: Focal Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 117631
Media: Plastic Comb
Edition: Spi
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Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.1 x 0.5
MPN: F200
ISBN: 0240802772
Dewey Decimal Number: 771.4
EAN: 9780240802770
ASIN: 0240802772
Publication Date: December 1998
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 Another great advanced user book from Anchell. February 12, 2003
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I bought and read every page of all three of Steve Anchell's black and white photo information books: The Variable Contrast Printing Manual, The Film Developing Cookbook, and The Darkroom Cookbook. Why? Because he gives a mix of an historical view plus tells what to pick of the best current chemistries. He does this without bogging down in the actual complexities of a college chemistry course keeping it at a usable technicians level. Since he also tells you why you are using various chemicals or paper his books do not dumb down but instead give you fascinating useful information. Anyone serious about darkroom work will appreciate his insights and commentary about chemistry use. He lists so many historical and current B&W chemical formulas and their use that any B&W experimenter will find the books useful. Beginners may get information overload but anyone who has already done B&W developing will appreciate the vast amount of information. These books could use an overall rewrite to make them a bit simpler to understand, in spite of this they are one of the few sources to accumulate this B&W information and are well worth owning as a reference and explanation.
 Great for history and formulas, NOT for beginners... February 15, 2002
22 out of 27 found this review helpful
I bought this book under the assumption and recommendation that it would teach me how to begin developing my own film... Unfortunately, this is NOT the book for that! This book has great historical value in describing the different formulas, their strengths and weaknesses, and contains charts that are probably valuable to those who ALREADY process their own film. This book is NOT for beginners looking into how one goes about processing their own film!
Apparently comprehensive February 2, 2002
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this book to get back into B&W photography. While I'm only up to the description of PMK, I've already been seriously influenced by this book. It explains, thoroughly and beyond my understanding of chemistry, all sorts of B&W film developer. It contains formula, suggestions and experiments for modifications to formula, references to sources, and development times for each combination of developer and film (I think). So now I'm looking into this "pyro" thing. PMK... got that. Special fixer... got that. Now I just need some film to develop. I'm going to do that... tomorrow. Now to find "Book of Pyro".A seriously good book.
A must have book for anyone who develops their own film! December 19, 2001
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
Anyone who is developing black and white knows that there are a lot of conflicting opinions out there. Kodak wants you to agitate the film a certain way, Ilford says to do it another way. Which developer do I use, and why? This book gives very logical and satisfactory answers to these questions. It allowed me to figure out how I was going to standardize my technique for the films that I am going to use. Don't be mislead by the title. This book does go into details of the effects of metol, phenidone, etc., but it is not a cookbook in the sense that you will come out designing your own developer. It does contain many recipies for developers, for those who mix their own. But, my aim was to figure out what the characteristics are of the developer that I am using, and how to maximize it. The book really excels in this area.I've run through about 75 feet of Tech Pan film trying out how to develop it using Xtol. Following Ansel Adams' advice in his book "The Negative" turned out to be a mistake, in this case. I was making my negatives way too dense. Anschell and Troop explained why this is, in their chapter on "Document Films". This covers Tech Pan, amongst other similar films. After having read through the book, I revised my working temperature, diluted Xtol to 1+5, changed my agitation style, changed from an acid stop bath to water, and got the fantastic results that I had sought for so long! It's also worked for other offbeat films like Kodak 5302 Positive release film for the B&W slide fans like myself (using Polymax 1+2). If you REALLY want to know what you're doing, and want to save tons of time and money from wasteful trial and error, get this wonderful book. It's really improved my results!
Best B&W film/developer book I've read. February 2, 2001
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
I learned more about B&W film and developers from this book than anything I've read in the past. I've been taking B&W photos for 25 years and this book rekindled my interest in experimenting with film. Buy it !
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