P3D Re: DIY Processing

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Georgoff wrote:
>
> Another alternative is reversal processing for black & white film, to
> yield B&W transparencies.  Okay, not color, but we do have stereo pairs
> here.  Processing options are either the Kodak T-Max reversal kit, or a
> kit available from Photographers Formulary ("formula developed by Hans
> F. Dietreich and appeared in the March/April 1988 issue of Darkroom
> Techniques": Anyone get this publication?).  Film can certainly be had
> cheap.
> 

Darkroom Techniques merged with another magazine which in turn merged
with another magazine (I think I've got that right).  The current
magazine is Photo Techniques.  It is very good.  It and View Camera (a
LF magazine) are the only photography magazines I subsribe to.  At one
point or another I had subscribed to Popular Photography, Petersen's
Photography, Outdoor Photography and Creative Camera & Darkroom
Techniques (the immediate predecessor of Photo Techniques).  Whereas
these others tend to be marketing rags for their advertisers, Photo
Techniques has published articles that contradict their advertisers
(see the recent articles on the impermanence of RC papers).

I may eventually subscribe to Camera Arts (the 35mm & MF sister
publication to View Camera).

> Is this a false economy?  Does anyone in P3D land do their own
> processing?
> 

It depends on your situation and desires.  I can't seem to find a
decent B&W lab in NYC, so I'm going to start processing my own B&W
film again.  I hate processing film, but I can't see paying a
surcharge for B&W processing (I see no reason it should cost more than
E6 processing) and getting bad contact prints.  I'll also do it so I
can try B&W reversal processing.

Ask me again after I've processed (and perhaps ruined) a dozen rolls.
:)

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