[Coco] Change of e-mail address and impending loss of web page for Robert Gault

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 05 February 2010, Robert Gault wrote:

>Gene Heskett wrote:

>> On Friday 05 February 2010, Robert Gault wrote:

>>> Gene Heskett wrote:

>>>> I hope you have a local copy.

>>>

>>> I just found a copy exits at

>>> http://web.archive.org/web/20070427105838/http://home.att.net/~robert.ga

>>>ult / So, until I make other arraignments, the site can be viewed at the

>>> above archive.

>>

>> Nice page, I had no idea you were also into chemistry.  I have been too

>> at times, with my most successful concoction being the color paper

>> developer I used in my color darkroom for a decade or more.  Many times

>> longer life sitting in the controlled temp water bath than anything I

>> could buy.  But that seems like a long ago and far away time now.  The

>> only evidence I have left is a shot of mother&  dad in '76 in my

>> billfold, only very slightly color shifted in 34 years.

>

>Most of the site is in this archive but not everything. I thought I had my

> own complete copy but some images are missing which unfortunately are also

> missing from the archive. I'll just have to recreate the missing material.

>

>I did not get into the developing aspect of photography to any extent but

> did fool around for a short time with "monobaths." I found a book,

> "Mononbath Manual" by Grant Haist, Morgan & Morgan Inc., 1966, which

> describes how you can develope black and white film with a single

> solution. I tried that while in college where I had access to the schools

> very large reflector scope. Got an adapter made to attach my 35mm camera

> to the scope and spent some interesting nights in the observatory.

>

I had heard of that, but it seemed to me that it would have cost a bit both 
in the dmax of the negative, but in the overall speed in ASA/ISO units, so I 
never tried that.  I did play with High Contrast Copy 35mm and home made D-23 
for a while, and got some great results if the exposure was spot on, but that 
was picky, very picky, and that is not a panchromatic film, no red.  It sure 
could test your lenses resolution though, counting every hair on the subjects 
head from 20 feet away if you were well focused.  There was a huge diff 
between F8 and F1.4 for the prime lens, not so much diff for the other, 
slower lenses.  I have a suitcase of pentax threaded lenses yet.  Genuine 
antiques now, like I am getting to be.


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