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Clip from photo.net regarding processing old E2 rolls
http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00DzKU
Don Day Photo.net Patron, nov 03, 2005; 02:43 p.m.
Can any reader provide either the number or actual title of the Kodak technical note on reprocessing color film developed as black-and-white? I'd like to add this PDF to my library.
Don Day Photo.net Patron, nov 04, 2005; 05:32 p.m.
I found the URL for the Kodak document. It seems to no longer work on their Web site, but you can access an archived version of it through http://archive.org, one of the best ways to retrieve pages at URLs that no longer work. HTML version: (link) PDF version: (link)


zzzz - Scratch Page - Light of DayA family negative that I recently scanned showed him proudly holding my young sister as a baby in those strong, but so gentle hands. I had never seen that photo before, and right away I could see how my younger sister was so loved--safe in those strong, caring hands.














Don Day Photo.net Patron, jul 15, 2005; 03:38 p.m.
Under the theme of "photos taken on old equipment when the equipment was current," this came to mind. My mother's father had a 3A Folding Brownie since he was a young man, and during one reunion at which my mother must have mentioned my interest in photography, he brought it out and gave it to me. A few years later, at the last reunion we had with him, I brought that camera along, loaded with 122 Verichrome Pan (last rolls were still available in some drugstores, hence the "then current" thought), and took this photo of my parents, my sister, and DaddyEd and his sister. Now, some 30 years after I took that picture, it is a direct connection between me today and the grandfather who shared the camera that we both used as youths. -- Don
zzzz - Scratch Page - Light of Day
A 3A Folding Kodak looks back at its first owner


Some information about a No. 3 Kodak Brownie that I aim to reload and put to use soon:
This old antique Kodak Brownie 3 camera was found in an attic by an elderly lady who was cleaning up her place and getting rid of things preparatory to moving to an assisted living facility. She wondered if anyone would like to have "this old thing". My wife accepted it, but was actually going to throw it away. My conscience will not let me destroy this unique bit of history. It is a vintage camera with exposed film inside. The strap by which it had been carried is rough and cracked, but the words "No. 3 Brownie" can be read in the impressions on it. The front 1/4 inch end of the strap is missing so that the camera cannot be lifted by the strap (not that anyone would want to). The dust of ages remains on the view windows and body of the camera. The film advance works and there is the sound of paper moving inside when the crank is turned. This presumably indicates that there is a roll of film waiting to be developed in there. I went into a dimly lit room to remove the film so that I might have it developed, but after unlatching the body, I could only move the face and body apart a fraction of an inch. I quit trying and reset the latches. I decided to sell the camera on e-Bay to someone who hopefully will know how to extract the film without damaging it or the camera, and who will have sufficient curiosity and sense of adventure to have the film developed. The only writing other than on the strap is on a metal tag on the back of the camera and an impression below the tag. The tag reads "Made in USA by Eastman Kodak Company Rochester NY 14408" and the impression reads "USE FILM 124." If you get this vintage Kodak Brownie 3 camera you will also receive a free mystery to solve and some historical adventure. It is a worthy bit of history to preserve in terms of the camera itself. How much will you learn from the pictures? Have fun. Good luck with your bidding. Shipping and receiving charges are $5.00. The camera will be shipped by USPS within three days of receipt of payment. PayPal is the preferred means of payment, but personal and business checks or money orders will also be accepted. If payment is made by check, the shipping date will be deferred until the check clears.
The rest of the story: http://nelsonfoto.com/v/showthread.php?p=93482


Copying some material I want to use for a new essay, but can't get Wetpaint to create the new page yet:

Impressed by the agency of Light aloneSuch was the description by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1840 of the remarkable ability of photographic materials to record scenes all around him without the handiwork of an artist. It refers to the image itself, created by exposure of a light-sensitive material within a camera. But the phrase should remind us of the awe we too should feel about the magic that happens whenever we press a shutter button to make an image. Are you impressed by the agency of light alone? I am, and here is why.

The roots of photography go back many years. The camera itself, a simple wooden box with a lens that formed an upside down miniature of the scene before it, was known from Renaissance times, and was used by the great artists to trace studies of their eventual paintings. The salt-and-silver imaging chemistry used by Talbot was simplicity itself (compared to the Daguerreotype process), although Talbot had to arrive at a viable formulation through a great many trials at a lot of expense. But oh, the images he made, they were like a form of poetry in themselves, dreamy but literal impressions that could be reproduced exactly.

And herein is the magic for me--that in the 1840s, the relatively crude "camera" box was the union of a high technology at each end: the lens in front, polished just so, and the sensitized negative at the back, positioned at the focal plane of the lens. Everything we use to make images today, from digital cameras to the Hubble Space Telescope, was derived from this humble instrument.

Talbot's magic is still alive! There are many fine old cameras to be had for a song out there. Find one that is still sound, clean it up, and fashion a way to make it take modern film, and you would be amazed at what was technically possible even for the cameras that Talbot used back in 1850.

My oldest camera is from about 1898, but it is technically very similar to Talbot's basic box camera. The popular age of the large film cameras lasted through the 1950's, during which ever more sophisticated cameras were made. From the 1930's onward, a different revolution was taking place with miniature cameras, yielding the golden age of 35mm film cameras that are ingenious applications of lessons learned from the big cameras. Every film camera, even the "plastic craptastic" variety sold in pharmacies and novelty stores, is a derivation of Talbot's "pencil of Nature" and a scion of the very first photographic tools and processes.

That is why I am "impressed by the agency of Light alone."

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Don