Focal Press - The Darkroom Cookbook, 3rd edition - Softcover Book by Steve Anchell, ISBN: 0240804236

Written in easy-to-understand language, The Darkroom Cookbook is the one source every photographer needs for the recipes for both common and rare photographic formulas. This book shares tried-and-true techniques for the silver-based process and provides the keys to unlocking creativity through the mastery of the 'ingredients' of photography -- namely the chemicals used to develop, fix, stop and tone.

The Darkroom Cookbook, 2nd Edition offers 170 photographic formulas, 20 of which are new to this edition, that cover film developing, paper developing, toners, stop baths, fixers, negative reductions, print reductions, negative intensifiers, paper intensifiers, and more. New information has been added on pyro developer, amidol developer, monobaths, pushing film, and low contrast development. Sections on safety and darkroom planning, as well as a listing of chemical suppliers, complete this book. The comb binding allows for easy darkroom use.

Contents List of Formulas; Equipment; Chemicals; Pharmacopeia; Development; Film Development; Paper Development; Stop Baths and Fixers; Toning Prints; Negative Reduction; Print Reduction; Intensification of Negatives; Intensification of Prints; Push Processing Film; Development by Inspection; Appendices -- Safety in Handling Photographic Chemicals; Chemical and Equipment Suppliers; Planning a Darkroom pH; Formulas; Bibliography; Conversion Tables

Pages:320