Hey Scott and Rob, I just started doing hand processing and have been working with a lot of expired film. I often have issues with it coming out with very low contrast, would a monobath be useful in countering that?
Nicole Elaine Baker MFA in Visual Studies, 2019 Pacific Northwest College of Art Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies *www.magiklantern.com <http://www.magiklantern.com>* On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 9:40 AM Rob Gawthrop <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Scott, really helpful, I will be using rewind/bucket. Got some on > order now! > > Rob > > > On 7 Mar 2019, at 19:52, Scott Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have not but I have used other monobaths before. They are convenient, > > but allow no control over gamma or really any part of the characteristic > > curve. Most of them are inherently very compensating because the > development > > is limited by the fixation. If you like that look, good. Otherwise not > so > > good. > > > > The Air Force was very big on monobath processing for aerial film back in > > Vietnam, because temperature and time were not very critical and for > people > > developing film in tents in the middle of a grassy field it reduced the > > handling considerably and got film out to analysts faster. Most of the > > monobath technology we have today came out of the space program and the > Air > > Force. > > > > If you're in an environment where you can't get even processing, and I > can > > see a lot of folks hand-processing motion picture film by rewind or in > > a bucket having that problem, the monobath could be a big help. On the > > other hand, so could a divided developer like Diafine. > > --scott > > > > _______________________________________________ > > FrameWorks mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >
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