----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 5:47 PM Subject: [pure-silver] Re: stopbath kills fixer > From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [pure-silver] Re: stopbath kills fixer > Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:27:57 -0800 > >> However, the hardness of the emulsion has nothing to do >> with >> its silver content. > > Increased crosslinking of gelatin generally reduces > covering power and > therefore reduces the maximum black density, if all else > is held > unchanged. Manufacturers have been spending great effort > to seek > methods of making mechanically rigid emulsions that allow > usefully > high degree of swelling. > > -- > Ryuji Suzuki > "Keep a good head and always carry a light camera." This is an interesting fact of which I was not aware. Is this a major effect? One would think it must be significant to generate the sort of effort you mention. --- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.