I still love the smell of fixer in the morning! It means I had a good night
in the darkroom.
Bob Younger
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 9:41 AM, bobkiss caribsurf.com <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
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 caribsurf.com <
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
