[pure-silver] Re: Thanks to Snoopy & an offer
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:28:47 -0700
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From: "Grif" <kgriffit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 1:13 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Thanks to Snoopy & an offer
Tri-Chem Pac??? I read that comment and could actually
smell it ;-)
That's it! My dad took a course in photography and
brough home the kit. He never did anything with it but I
did. The kit had three small trays, a ruby lamp, a small
printing frame, a small package of Velox, a few
Tri-Chem-Paks, a couple of film clips and a few other
things, I think a small graduate. Anyway, enough stuff to
process a few rolls of film and print them. I thing the film
was 127 size but am not sure. It seemed to take forever to
develop but was probably only abotu five minutes. I also
made prints. I don't remember now what the pictures were of,
probably just taken in front of our house. It didn't matter,
I still marvel when I see the image begin to come up on a
print. I think anyone who is serious about photography
should have the experience of seeing film develop.
Unfortunately, that requires ortho film and its unavailable.
The Tri-Chem-Pak for those who don't know, had three
small packets of chemicals, a universal developer, a stop
bath, a fixing bath, all in powder form. The developer
changed over the time the packs were made, I think it was
originally something like Dektol but later was Versatol, a
somewhat less active developer that worked better for film
but would still develop printing paper adequately.
Tri-Chem-Paks were also available in packages and were
convenient for processing one or two rolls of film when
traveling. Strictly one-shot. Kodak made a couple of
darkroom kits. I think they made one that was more elaborate
than the one I had. The next kit was from FR and was
definitely a step up with a roll film tank and some other
stuff. I think a real safelight in place of the ruby lamp. I
used FR chemicals for a long time; they were in liquid form
and worked well. The FR tank was the kind that loaded by
rotating the cage back and forth, much easier to load that
the push-into kind of plastic tanks (I have never liked
them). After moving to California I got really serious and
set up a real darkroom with enlarger. I was introduced to
Nikor stainless steel tanks around then and have never gone
back to plastic ones.
I have had a few lapses, one quite long one, but have
been doing darkroom work now for over sixty years. Certainly
digital has many advantages but I still like "wet"
photography and film. (And vacuum tube electronics).
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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