I also still work in the darkrum...oops...darkroom but do more 19th century
printing processes now which have their own unique aromas. I spend less time
with stop and thiosulfate than I used to.
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Since I still work in the darkroom I'm less nostalgic about the aroma of fixer.
You're right about the different brands of paper though...
Mark Sampson
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I remember that Agfa Brovira had a unique smell, quite different than Kodak or
Oriental.
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And the smell of a new box of paper when it's first opened......
Bob Younger
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 6:54 AM, bobkiss [ http://caribsurf.com/ ;| caribsurf.com
] < [ mailto:bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ;| bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ] > wrote:
"I love the smell of Amadol in the morning...smells like...HISTORY!"
All seriousness aside, in REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, Proust mentions that even
a waft of a whiff of his deceased mother's perfume brought intense visual and
other memories of time with her flooding into his consciousness. Those of us
who were raised on chemical photography will probably always have a strange
form of nostalgia for certain smells; the sharp smell of acetic acid stop bath,
the slightly sulfurous smell of degenerating thiosulfate ions, and for me, the
chemical refinery smell of Amadol. I first smelled it at RIT when we did sensi
strips comparing various developing agents. Then, when I started doing my
personal work around 93 after my advertising/fashion career, I started mixing
Adam's amadol dev. Dektol had its own smell but not as interesting as Amadol.
I also loved the smell of 35mm film, especially color, when I first opened the
canister, originally metal, then plastic. It was some unique combination of
sweetness, paint, and chemicals.
Just some nostalgic thoughts for a Friday morning...
CHEERS!
BOB
