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Fujifilm’s Velvia 100 Professional; Replacing The Venerable 50
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George Schaub  |  Oct 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Many moons ago I was granted a few test rolls of the then-new Fujichrome Velvia 50. I happened to be in Las Vegas at the time, and curious just how saturated this touted high-saturation film might be I hiked around red rock country and exposed a few rolls. Having been a dedicated slide shooter and film tester for another photo mag I was pretty familiar with slide films and how...

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35mm Tri-X Celebrates Its 50th
A Golden Anniversary For The Queen Of Silver Halide
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Frances E. Schultz  |  Nov 01, 2004  |  0 comments

A 50th anniversary is something very special: a golden anniversary, which is a good trick for something made of silver, is what Kodak Tri-X celebrates this year. The first of the X-films was Panatomic-X in 1938. Two-thirds of a century later, there's some doubt about what the X was for: probably "Extra," as it was faster and sharper and finer grained than the...

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Coffee, Tea, Or Vitamin C
Kitchen Chemistry In The Darkroom
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Roger K. Bunting  |  Sep 01, 2003  |  109 comments

A century and a half of research and development in photographic processing technology has given us some mighty fine materials to work with. The ease and speed of processing high quality black and white photos with today's materials is truly...

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