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Scanned from Fuji Press 800
(shot at ISO-200 and expired from May-2004)
Chicago, IL
May 2021
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Das Record Rapid ist eines der Papiere, die keinen, oder nur wenig Verzögerer im Lithentwickler benötigen. Easy Lith FT Special enthält jedoch eine größere Menge Kaliumbromid. Dennoch kann dieser Entwickler verwendet werden, das Papier benötigt dann jedoch eine erheblich längere Belichtungszeit. Unabhängig von der Entwicklerabstimmung liegt der Snatch-Point normalerweise bei etwa 10 Minuten. Auch bei einer längeren Belichtungszeit kommen dann die Lichter nicht wesentlich farbiger, es sei denn, es wird ein zweiter Entwickler für die Lichter eingesetzt. Nach der üblichen langen Entwicklungszeit im Lith, bringt der zweite Entwickler allerdings nur wenig Effekt, weil die Lichter schon ausentwickelt sind. Soll ein anderer Ton für die Lichter erzeugt werden, muß die Entwicklungszeit im Lith verkürzt werden, damit der zweite Entwickler noch ausreichend unentwickeltes Silbersalz vorfindet. Allerdings würde dann das, für dieses Papier übliche tiefe Schwarz fehlen. Deshalb braucht es eine kurze Behandlung mit einem Nachbrenner (mit B oder Omega) nach dem Lith. Sobald sich ein tiefes Schwarz in den Schatten zeigt, wird zweimal kurz gespült, bevor im Siena die noch fehlenden Lichter entwickelt werden. Das mag kompliziert klingen, doch erfahrene Lithprinter werden dies nachvollziehen können.
Record Rapid is one of the papers that require little or no restrainer in the lith developer. Easy Lith FT Special, however, contains a larger amount of potassium bromide. Nevertheless, this developer can be used, but the paper then needs a considerably longer exposure time. Regardless of the developer adjustment, the snatch point is usually around 10 minutes. Even with a longer exposure time, the highlights then do not come out much more coloured, unless a second developer is used for the highlights. After the usual long development time in the lith, however, the second developer brings little effect because the highlights are already developed out. If a different tone is to be produced for the highlights, the development time in the lith must be shortened so that the second developer still finds sufficient undeveloped silver salt. However, the deep black that is usual for this paper would then be missing. Therefore, it needs a short treatment with an afterburner (with B or Omega) after the lith. As soon as a deep black appears in the shadows, a short rinse is done twice before the still missing highlights are developed in the Siena developer. This may sound complicated, but experienced lith printers will be able to follow this.
Red paint peeling crazily from the verandah roof of an old house inhabited by a printing business. Not a painting business!
Experimenting with a rainy night and intentional camera movement, i liked how it rendered the reflections and colours.
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A photograph of a printer's block of the Château de Sully-sur-Loire, France.
Note the colour is truly that blue.
A mothballed newspaper printers.
Aluminium art prints are the latest thing to be in short supply.
Go here and grab one while you can :-)
During my high school years I had a girlfriend whose dad worked as a printer for the San Francisco Chronicle. He smelled a bit like an old newspaper that had been stored in the attic for a few eons, and the tips of his fingers were permanently stained black. That was many years ago, and my assumption has been, that with the advent of the internet and high speed copy machines, the use of conventional ink printing had largely gone the way of the white elephant--extinct.
Not so, it appears. Half Moon Bay still sports an old print shop and from the looks of it, there could very well be some ink printing involved. To tell the truth though, I wasn't about to hang around and try to examine the fingers of the employees as they exited the building. I was afraid my eye might end up blacker than their fingers.
Half Moon Bay CA
The Printer's Rest cafe and take away on Cliff Road in Wick, Caithness, on 3/9/2024. Once the office of the local newspaper The John O'Groats Journal.
Traditionally the center of Nashville’s nightlife, Printers Alley was, in its earlier days, a series of posts where men bound for the courthouse hitched their horses. By the turn of the twentieth century, it had become the center of Nashville’s printing industry; in its heyday, circa 1915, thirteen publishers and ten printers were located in the area serviced by the alley. Nashville’s two largest newspapers, The Tennessean and the Nashville Banner had their offices here at one time. The street contained hotels, restaurants, and saloons, many of the latter becoming speakeasies when Prohibition went into effect in 1909. Nightclubs opened here in the 1940s, and the alley became a showcase for the talents of performers such as Boots Randolph, Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Dottie West, The Supremes, Hank Williams, Barbara Mandrell, and Jimi Hendrix. Today’s nightclubs are the descendants of the saloons, speakeasies, and clubs which developed into the entertainment district still known as Printers Alley. ~ nashvilledowntown.com/go/printers-alley
Vacation Day, 03/15//2022, Nashville, TN
Leica Camera AG M Monochrom
Canon 35mm f2.0 LTM
ƒ/5.6 1/4000 1600
Traditionally the center of Nashville’s nightlife, Printers Alley was, in its earlier days, a series of posts where men bound for the courthouse hitched their horses. By the turn of the twentieth century, it had become the center of Nashville’s printing industry; in its heyday, circa 1915, thirteen publishers and ten printers were located in the area serviced by the alley. Nashville’s two largest newspapers, The Tennessean and the Nashville Banner had their offices here at one time. The street contained hotels, restaurants, and saloons, many of the latter becoming speakeasies when Prohibition went into effect in 1909. Nightclubs opened here in the 1940s, and the alley became a showcase for the talents of performers such as Boots Randolph, Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Dottie West, The Supremes, Hank Williams, Barbara Mandrell, and Jimi Hendrix. Today’s nightclubs are the descendants of the saloons, speakeasies, and clubs which developed into the entertainment district still known as Printers Alley. ~ nashvilledowntown.com/go/printers-alley
Vacation Day, 03/15//2022, Nashville, TN
Leica Camera AG M Monochrom
Canon 35mm f2.0 LTM
ƒ/4.0 1/90 800