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

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 05 February 2010, paulh96636 at aol.com wrote:
>Somewhat similar with me years ago too:  I stayed with color slide film for
> economic reasons, much cheaper than prints at the time, but nowadays
> prints can be cheaper than slides.
>
>Never made a good roll of Anscochrome, never a bad roll of Ektachrome. 
> This was due to first developer temp control needing to be +- 1/2F for ca.
> 15 minutes.  Anscochrome needed to be 75F, Ektachrome 68F, and since
> basement ambient temp was usually near dead on 68F, well....   ;-)        
>   -ph

The color negative films, because you could compensate in exposing the print, 
were a lot easier to get acceptable prints from.  I shot a couple of miles of 
the various kodacolor films, and some fujicolor too, in fact I shot 6 of the 
first case of fuji's new ASA-400 (1600 if pushed) film that was ever shipped 
to the states back in the mid-70's.  The lady that owned the photography 
store in Norfolk NE had pull I guess.  When she retired and closed up for 
good, I bought about 900 sheets of 8x10 color paper she kept in a freezer, 
moved it to my freezer and had print paper for the rest of the time I was 
doing it.

Because I had a Beseler 23C with a dichro color head, I could get better 
prints out of poorly exposed OP negatives than the photo finishers of the day 
could.  got a reputation as the goto guy if they wanted better prints.  I 
still have one of the nikor tanks & a bunch of that stuff stashed away, and 
even went so far as to make another darkroom sink 20 years ago, but it has 
never been wet, too many other projects & not nuff time.  Now the area in the 
basement that I was going to use has my coco3 setup in it.

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