[pure-silver] Re: Uncle Dick contest & "Silver-Gelatin"

--- Ryuji Suzuki <rs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > AGX4EVR


I have silvergrain.org and AgX.st domains among
> others.

What for?


<But even those PhD's, MBA's, MD's and JD's around me
often don't get what AgX refers to.

AgX (Silver Halide) is chemical terminology.

Did you expect the average photographer to know this
terminology?

Well whatever, I am sure most do not, and that goes
for both Japanese and American Photographers.

Most Japanese students are even surprised to learn
that their film contains gelatin in the emulaion and
many Japanese consumers belive that gelatin is in fact
a plant product of the sea, confusing it no doubt with
agar-agar.

As far as the City "name dropping" goes, I think the
recogonition value  of "AgX" in Rochester is more or
less the same as it is in the other cities you
mentioned...

  Ashigara... Fuji

  Hino...     Konika

  Leverkusen  Agfa

  Mortsel     Agfa

(Sorry, I hit the tab key to indent the above and
somehow it seems like the half finished mail got sent
before I was finished composing... I wish there was a
lock on the send function but unfortunately this
sometimes happens when I mistakenly hit the wrong
keys)

Anyway, the Hino plant is quite large, flat an as I
recall, quite square. 

I used to ride my bicycle aroud it wondering what they
were doing behind the gate.

My one time visit inside 10 or 12 years ago was
memorable, and I learend that they too had used
(photographic) document paper for copying books.

Not surprizingly, I found them to be very
knowledgeable with rapid access to information of
various types and dates.

However, for what its worth, The average person on the
street in Hino would have absolutely no clue as to
what AgX means.

Silvergrain is less understood than silver gelatin or
gelatin silver which are also not universally used
terms.


AFAIK, It seems that these terms stem from gallery
classification... anyone know for sure?

When / Who was the first to use the term 
"Silver-Gelatin Print" or the variation I've seen, 
"Gelatin-Silver Print"?  

Ray

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