It is no wonder there is confusion on the subject, but no, they are not the same. In fact they are very different animals, and Special is essentially unusable as stand developer. Special used to be called Agfa Studional. I became quite familiar with this film in my early photojournalism years. Okay, this was so [...]
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Silver in a Digital Age
It occurred to me when preparing the Adobe Acrobat preview of my book, “Iridescent Light”, how differently one must think when preparing a digital representation of a photograph, compared to a silver print. This comes to me after spending some marathon sessions in my darkroom, printing images for a new exhibit. On one hand, electronic images [...]
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As a kid, I recall making a soft focus lens by taking laying down a cheap filter on a flat surface, putting a dime in the middle, and using my mom’s AquaNet hairspray to coat the filter. When it was dry, I would remove the dime, and attach it to my camera. Voila! A cheap [...]
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