[pure-silver] Re: Which photo chemicals taste the best?
- From: "John Black" <jblack@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:49:28 -0500
> Sort of an odd question...
>
> I have a cat, who is usually a pretty well behaved
> beast - she doesn't scratch or chew on anything -
> almost. She seems to love the taste of negatives and
> of prints. Last night I spent several hours in the
> darkroom, and ended up with 4 prints that I was
> pleased with. I put them in a stack on my dresser,
> along with a bunch of work prints and the cat knocked
> them off, and sorted through them so that she could
> pick which one tasted best and proceeded to chew all
> around the edges. This is not the first time, and I
> know that I am at fault for not protecting the prints
> better but, I notice that she seems to have particular
> taste in the prints that she selects to chew on - I
> have noticed:
>
> Given a choice between colour or B&W negatives, she
> will go for the B&W every time.
>
> Given a choice between a fiber based and an RC print,
> she will take the fiber based print almost always.
>
> Last night, the stack of prints had probably 20 or so
> prints in it - almost all FB, one of which was
> selenium toned - guess which one she selected to chew
> on?
>
> Hence my question - I assume that there is a chemical
> used in the process which she particularly likes the
> taste of - probably fix, since this would be common to
> the B&W negs and the prints, and fibre prints are
> probably going to retain the taste better than RC.
> Does anybody else have a pet who enjoys photography as
> mine seems to?
I work in the Veterinary profession but I still don't understand cats' taste
preferences.
Chances are it may be a taste for gelatin (an animal protein) and/or a salty
taste left over from processing.
I prefer chromes with a bit of drawn butter myself, but to each his own....
JB
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