{"id":15236,"date":"2019-08-04T05:20:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T09:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=15236"},"modified":"2019-08-02T23:30:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T03:30:44","slug":"time-after-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/time-after-time-2\/","title":{"rendered":"time after time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15237\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GrayLab300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15237\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15237\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GrayLab300-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GraLab Timer<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Back around 1960, I built my first darkroom. After an enlarger, my first purchase was a Gralab timer. This was when I first began developing and printing at home &#8211; high school and my time in Labrador and northern Quebec helped me hone the skills of developing film and printing positives (in black and white).<\/p>\n<p>As you may know, a timer is needed for two critical operations: processing films via time and temperature, and printing positives using the same method. \u00a0Stop baths, fixing baths and washing are not that critical so a watch will do, \u00a0but development by time and temperature makes both critical.<\/p>\n<p>As handy as the old Kodak Timer was, a massive Gralab with its big luminous dial and hands was the cat&#8217;s\u00a0pyjamas for a serious amateur&#8217;s darkroom. Being a bit naive at the time I bought my Gralab, I added a foot switch socket, a push button &#8220;start&#8221;, an A\/C fuse and a relay. Press the push button, and the relay sent power from the safelight to the enlarger for an accurately timed period preset on the large dial.<\/p>\n<p>NB. The title of this post is from an old<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyndi_Lauper\"> Cyndi Lauper<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aBsCqTlepPs\">song<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Back around 1960, I built my first darkroom. After an enlarger, my first purchase was a Gralab timer. This was when I first began developing and printing at home &#8211; high school and my time in Labrador and northern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/time-after-time-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[286,907,21,753],"class_list":["post-15236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-processes","tag-darkroom","tag-gralab","tag-kodak","tag-timer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15239,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236\/revisions\/15239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}