Jack Kerouac

Kermis in Nijmegen

AgfaOrtho in interbellum Darko, fifties Смена

(Hey, Blogger is "working" on my pictures; please don't)

Temperatur

Ein bisschen komisch: bei 22 grad plus, lange Unterhosen für 32 grad minus kaufen. Aber weil Sibirien kein ferner Traum mehr ist, sondern bevorstehende Realität...
Aber zuerst noch ein herbstliches PuddingHimbeerStarbucksMuffi mit Doppio.

E In Stalin's Volkswagen (my bakelite Смена) was 1987 AgfaOrtho, in the interbellum Darko (still going strong).

Lachs in Hummersosse

Der Herbst fängt gut an: ich sitze bei Madrid, geniesse al fresco die Sonne und den Marques (mgsjsn). Der Lachs ist perfekt.

Dann besuche ich die Volksrepublik China, kuck mir alte Bücher an und kaufe, weil das Tanzmariechen so polnisch aussieht Pravda Wodka zum Schützenfest.
Düsseldorf international.

In der Iloca ist... ach, das sehen Sie unten. Oben.

E In the fifties Iloca is nineties Tasma, the developer is interbellum, probably Darko.

I apologize for the stupid lay out, BLOGGER can't get it right lately. Very annoying.

The 2013 New Year Lecture...

 Working with old developer

This won't be a nice, in-depth tutorial, because it is still very much work in progress, but nevertheless...
You all know by now that I love to use old stuff: cameras and film, but also chemicals. (I use that word because I once had Russian seventies фиксаж... hà!)

Normally I use reliable Rodinal, at the moment "Promicrol" (the q.m. because it's not real Promicrol any more, alas), but if I can get it: Tabloid, Реактив (great stuff!), Montauk - the older the better.

Yes, there are some problems.
Fluids, like Tetenal Neofin, tend to disappear into thin air - and they don't work.



But the powders - the only problem, sometimes, is to get them out of the tube, or the envelope. When that is difficult, I just put everything (yes: developer, activator, glass, paper and stoppers) in the water, wait (leave it covered in the dark) and filter it. Works.

Wòrks? Yes, they work. Young seventies РЕАКТИВ or a century old   
Eastman, they will develop your film. The solution can be clear, cloudy or dark brown - that doesn't matter.

Developing time: I follow the decades old instructions. (! That's not me...)

Mostly I make 500 ml, and use that for let's say 4 or 5 films, but it dies rather suddenly - and in fact I am happy when I get one or two films out of it.

Dating: yes, that ìs a problem. The Ucrainian stamp it on, nice. Sometimes there is a manual with names of film, or the firm still exists. Often it's just educated guessing.



But always: surprise, satisfaction. Admiration, too. FUN.