[pure-silver] Re: silver in b&w films


On May 31, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Ken Hart1 wrote:
When both Pan and Ortho films were in use, portrait studios had two kinds of makeup available in a 'cake' form, one type for ortho films and one type for pan films. The "pan-cake" was a more natural (compared to the ortho-cake) look.
That's pretty interesting. Not to sidetrack, but is that really where the term "pancake make-up" came from? Who'd a thought?? 

Thank you, guys, answering my silver question.

Janet

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