Hard (250 bloom), high-clarity, inert photographic
gelatin,
suitable for making your own silver-halide photographic
emulsions (including holographic and Lippmann
plates), for alternative
processes such as carbon printing, for sizing paper, silk screen work, making photo
stencils or pad-printing cliches, and similar
uses. You can make your own photo
paper at home, relatively easily.
Modern photographic
gelatins like this one are highly purified. Unlike supermarket gelatins,
they contain none of the various salts and trace components that are
normal in food but react unpredictably with photosensitive
compounds.
Paper is best sized with a 2%
solution (20 grams of gelatin dissolved in a litre of water). Most emulsion formulas use 7 to 10 grams
of gelatin per
litre of emulsion, so a little goes a long way.
Note this is pure type B ossein photo gelatin only. You
must add the chemicals that make it light-sensitive.
Item: BEGEL/250
per
250 grams
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Item: BEGEL/500
per 500 grams
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Liquid Light® photographic
emulsion for prints on wood, glass, ceramics, plastics, china, fabrics,
metal, stone, paper, artist's canvas, walls — even an egg. Complete
instructions are included. This emulsion is sensitive to daylight and
room light, and must be handled under amber or red light.
Makes wonderful prints on textured art
papers available at art supply, crafts, and scrapbooking stores. For
best results, size the paper with starch or intert photographic grade
gelatin (offered above).
Coat it on glass or thick Mylar to make
a very slow (approximately EI 1 or 2) film for making negatives
in a view camera or pinhole camera. The emulsion will stick if you coat
the glass or mylar first with a clear coating that adheres both to glass
and gelatin. You can buy spray cans of clear urethane, which works well,
at stores which
sell art supplies.
Printing with Liquid Light is the same as
with black-and-white enlargement paper. Under amber or red safelight,
brush the emulsion onto a surface. Expose with an enlarger or slide
projector, or make contact prints from full-size negatives. Process with
any standard paper developer and fixer.
Prints are archivally-permanent with a
full range of tones and transparent highlights that reveal the color and
texture of the material underneath. Contrast is medium-high
(approximately #3).
Coverage is approximately 1˝ square feet
per ounce, or about 12 sq ft from this 8-ounce bottle. No fumes, odors
or VOC's — Liquid Light is completely darkroom-safe.
Item: RO-LLE/8
per 8-oz bottle
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Bluefire™ HR An ultra-soft developer for long, soft pictorial gradation with
ultra-fine grain films like Bluefire Police, Kodak Tech Pan, and
microfilms. To learn more about this developer, go to the Bluefire catalog page (click
here).
1-litre size
Bluefire HR. Packaged in
2-part dry
powder form. Mix with tap water to make 1 litre (1 quart) of concentrate. Dilute
concentrate 1:16 to make one-time-use working solution (add 15 ml
concentrate to 235 ml water to process one roll of
35mm). Sufficient to develop 66 rolls of 35mm film.
Product BHR1L
Bluefire HR 30-ml sample size. Will develop
two rolls of 35mm film. Pre-mixed liquid.
Product
BHR30
Bluefire™ Micro A high-contrast microfilm-style developer for hard
blacks, hard whites, and little if any gray scale from ultra-fine grain films like Bluefire Police, Kodak Tech Pan, and
microfilms. To learn more about this developer, go to the Bluefire catalog page (click
here).
1 litre size Bluefire Micro,
2-part dry developer powder to be mixed with tap water. Long shelf life and
excellent working capacity.
Product BMI-1L
Super-76 film developer
Concentrated liquid film developer, an
improved formula of the Kodak D-76 type. However, Super-76 contains no
Metol. Process your film using the same time, temperature, and agitation
you would use with Kodak D-76 or Ilford ID-11, for the same excellent
grain and tonal characteristics. You get the benefit of D-76 without the
metol and the complication of mixing up powdered chemicals.
For
standard D-76-type development, dilute 1:1 with water. For development
equivalent to D-76 1:1, dilute 1:4 with water. For high contrast, use
full strength.
Product NA-129
1 quart of Super-76 concentrate
Note: The Metol in ordinary D-76 type formulas can cause dermatitis
in some people and is no longer widely used. Super-76 contains no Metol.
Need stop bath? Use ordinary household
vinegar, diluted 1 part vinegar to 5 parts water.
Photographic fixer, dry powder mix. Makes 1
litre (1 US quart). Ideal formula
for fixing all modern black and white films, papers, or spreadable
photographic emulsions. This is standard
sodium thiosulfate fixer, not ammonium "rapid" fixer, so be
sure to give your film adequate time in the fixer, at least five
minutes. Washes out in three to five minutes if you use a sodium sulfite
wash aid, but if no wash aid is available, a fifteen minute wash will be
adequate.
Product
NA-423, Standard Sodium thiosulfate non-hardening
fixer crystals, 1-litre size
Rapid drying, anti-static, anti-streaking. A wetting agent is
essential to reduce or eliminate water spots on negatives, even if you
rinse in distilled water, and this
product is not only economical, it's extremely effective. Compounded
with safe, biodegradable ingredients and an antistatic agent that
promotes dust-free drying. Use two drops in 400 ml of water for film, or
four drops in a tray of water for rinsing 8x10 resin-coated photo
papers.
These AP tanks can be used to process black and white,
color, or infrared film.
Interchangeable with Patterson processing tanks and reels. But there
is a good reason to prefer these to Patterson products.
Here's the reason. The spiral reels
included with these tanks feature extra-large, thumb-sized tabs where
the film-feed entry is located. There is a tab on top, and a larger
tab on the bottom. They're dead easy to locate in the dark, and make
it very unlikely you'll be trying to feed the film in backwards.
Film loading bag
Elastic sleeves (above) and
strong double zipper (below) exclude all light
This is a well-made
double-layer fabric bag for handling light-sensitive materials, such as
film, in daylight. It features a large double-zippered opening on one
end, and elastic-lined wrist holes on the other. Totally light-proof.
Use
it, for example, to load film onto spiral reels, and then into your
processing tank. Makes it possible to develop film at home, with no
darkroom, or while traveling.
Small
bag, 17 inches square. More than adequate for the 35mm photographer.
Product
BAG1717
Medium
and large format film bag, 27 x 30 inches. Truly a portable darkroom.
Product DL-0188
Denki® 1
Metal Thermometer
2-1/4" diameter darkroom thermometer for
developing tank or tray. Calibrations are in 1° Celsius and 2°
Farenheit increments. Total range from -32°F to 100°F for all color/black and
white developing and printing. Durable and accurate.
Product DL-0559
ea.
AP Compact Developing
tank
with two easy-load spiral reels. Chemical-resistant plastic. Process color or black and white
film, 35mm, 126, 127, 120, 620, and 220.
Product APTAN
ea.
AP Compact
style spiral reels
only. These fit standard Patterson tanks as well as AP tanks, but feature
greatly improved film-loading flanges which considerably simplify film
loading in the dark. The only quirk is that to remove processed film conveniently, you should pull the reel apart rather than simply
pull the film out.
Product REEL
ea.
Personal note: my experience makes it clear that these
Compact style (wide-flange) reels are significantly easier to load in the dark
than Patterson and Jobo reels. A roll of curly 120 can take me ten
minutes with a Patterson reel, and I worry about kinking it. It rarely
takes even 30 seconds with one of these. David Foy
DELTA 1
Glass Thermometer
Crystal clear, hermetically sealed, 6" darkroom thermometer for
developing tank or tray. Calibrations are in Fahrenheit and
Celsius in 2° increments.
Specifically marked and calibrated at 68° by an easy-to-see
triangle. Total range from -20°F to 120°F for all color/black and
white developing and printing. Floats.
Product DL-0559
ea.
(Aquarium thermometers are an
inexpensive alternative, but if you do much darkroom work, the
calibrated markings on these specialized photo thermometers make life
easier.)
Cassette Opener
DLC Cassette Hand held Opener
This
cassette opener will open your 35mm cassettes without damaging the
cassette. Use only in darkroom
per
250 grams
per 500 grams
per 8-oz bottle
Product
BHR30
ea.
ea.
ea.
ea.
ea.