[pure-silver] Re: Chromogenic toning?

  • From: "Koch, Gerald" <gkoch02@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:10:24 -0500

Here is some more information.

Color Couplers
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Color          Coupler                          Solvent
Concentration
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
blue           1-naphthol                       alcohol              1 to 2%
blue           5-nitro-1-naphthol               alcohol              1 to 2%
blue-green     2,4-dichloro-1-naphthol          alcohol              1 to 2%
green          pentabromo-naphthol              alcohol              3%
pale green     dichloro-ortho-cresol            alcohol              2 to 3%
yellow         2,5-dichloro-acetoacetanilide    alcohol or acetone   5%
yellow         ortho-chloro-acetoacetanilide    alcohol or acetone   5%
yellow-brown   cyanoacetanilide                 alcohol or acetone   1%
orange         benzoylacetanilide               alcohol or acetone   5%
red            1,3-5-phenylmethylpyrazolone     acetone              3 to 5%
magenta        para-nitrophenyl acetonitrile    alcohol or acetone   5 to 8%

Color Developer

Kodak CD-1 ..............................   2.5 g 
Sodium sulfite (anhy) ...................   2.5 g
Sodium carbonate (anhy) .................  15.0 g
Potassium thiocyanate, 10% ..............  10.0 ml
Color coupler ...........................   5.0 ml
Water to make ...........................   1.0 l

The developer can be made up beforehand and should keep for about a month.  The
coupler should be added immediately before use.

The print is bleached in any rehalogenizing bleach and redeveloped in the above
color 
developer.  After development the print should be bleached again and fixed.

Encyclopedia of Photography, Focal Press 1962.

The resulting prints are essentially color prints and like them must be
protected from exposure to direct sunlight.  You could use any of the other
color developing agents CD-2, CD-3, CD-4.  

You could also probably use the developer from the Kodak RA-4 color print
process by adding the coupling agent just before use.  You would have to
experiment.

This technology is essentially what was used in the old Kodachrome process.

Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Nick Zentena
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:28 PM
To: 'pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [pure-silver] Chromogenic toning?


Hi,

        I've been reading "The Photographer's Toning book" and would like to try

chromogenic toning. But neither 

p-Diethylaminoaniline sulphate
Sodium formaldehyde sulphoxylate

Are on the chemical list of my usual supplier. Can I sub something for these 
two? 

Looking at the rest of the formula it gets worse.

4-Nitrobenzyl cyanide
Acetoacet-2 5-dichloroanilide
2,4-dicloro-1-naphthol
1-naphthol

Should I give up or are these things easily available?

Thanks
Nick
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