[pure-silver] Re: Which photo chemicals taste the best?
- From: "Dave Valvo" <dvalvo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:13:18 -0800
In the old days at Kodak, where the gel was stored, it was kind of hard to
control the rats. They love the stuff and grow to the size of small dogs.
Because they get very little nutrients they die very young.....and stink!
The cats hate gel.
Dave
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From: "Sauerwald Mark" <mark_sauerwald@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 8:39 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Which photo chemicals taste the best?
> 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?
>
>
>
>
>
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