Any moderately good photo shop will have them and they keep for months. David Savage wrote:
>If you can source the chemicals, home processing of B&W is quite easy. > >Dave > > >On 10/19/06, J and K Messervy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>And if you don't process film yourself? >> >>I will be taking film to the local pro lab for processing. >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >>Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:27 PM >>Subject: Re: Remedial film photography. :) >> >> >> >> >>>And, of course, with B&W film, there's a lot more control on the >>>processing >>>end, so one can "over expose" the film, or expose for the shadows, and >>>develop for the highlights, so that there are no blown highlights. So, >>>for >>>a Q&D example, you can rate TX @ 200, cut back the standard processing >>>time >>>by 25% or so, and get a negative that will print quite well. >>> >>>Shel >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>[Original Message] >>>>From: John Francis >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>> Paul Stenquist wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Your example is extreme, but most films seem to be slightly overrated >>>>>in regard to ISO. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Hardly. The ISO testing procedure is well-defined, and rigorously >>>>followed. If a film says ISO 400 on the box, you can be darn sure >>>>that it will score 400 on the ISO measurement scale. >>>> >>>>But that doesn't mean blindly loading a DX-coded cassette into >>>>your camera, pointing the camera at a random scene, and letting >>>>that determine the exposure will produce the results you want >>>>(even assuming the average brightness of your subject is anywhere >>>>close to 12% grey). Furthermore, shifting the exposure up the >>>>scale (which is what you do if you rate the film at slower than >>>>the box speed) will decrease noise in the shadows at the cost of >>>>possibly blowing out the highlights, while shifting downwards >>>>towards under-exposure will generally increase colour saturation. >>>>It's all a matter of choosing what effect you want, and then >>>>deciding which film to use, and how to rate it, in order to >>>>get close to that result. >>>> >>>> >>> >>>-- >>>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>[email protected] >>>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> >>> >>> >>> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>[email protected] >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> >> > > > -- Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. --Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
