[rollei_list] Re: [rolleiusers] Argomania
- From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:41:42 -0500
> This was the Hunt brothers, sons of H.L.Hunt a Texas
> oil tycoon who claimed to have begun his fortune by winning
> a poker game. The Hunt brothers tried to corner the silver
> market and succeeded in driving silver prices up to an
> insupportable level. They were procecuted by the government
> and I think may have had to do some jail time. Both Nelson
> Bunker Hunt and his father Haroldson L. Hunt are covered by
> many articles, a Google search will find them. They were not
> nice people.
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Well they took the blacks out of the photo papers. Though I'd also heard
way later that was maybe not all that true.
The only paper which had any real good old fashioned printable black left
was Agfa Portriga but that was a warm black. Decidedly uncool. You had to
try to figure out how to neutralized it. Amidol was one way. Agfa 130 with
Glycin another in the tray for 5 minutes. And others. Benzotriazole instead
of Bromide as a restrainer.
Me I just used Agfa Brovira. I believe in bromide.
Then GALLERY Paper came out and they realized people would pay a few extra
bucks to get some silver in their premium paper. After that as far as I
went and the photographers I knew Ilford took over and the Multigrade papers
became viable.
What everyone thought was happening was they'd keep taking the silver out of
the papers instead of raising the prices on them every other month. But that
may not have been true. Some other weird thing going on in paper
manufacture. Its always what you don't think.
Mark William Rabiner
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