{"id":26245,"date":"2023-06-28T01:03:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T05:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=26245"},"modified":"2023-06-24T23:58:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T03:58:10","slug":"made-to-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/made-to-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"made to measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26246\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/graduate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26246\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26246\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/graduate-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a one ounce graduate for stirring chemicals or adding a bit of water to a larger vessel<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In the days of film, darkroom work was all wet and gooey either in full darkness or with dim reddish or brownish illumination. Strange powders were measured out and added to water and mixed to create magical solutions. Some mixes were <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endothermic_process\">endothermic<\/a>, others <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exothermic_reaction\">exothermic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On my various routes, I would visit small drug stores to see if they had any scales or mixing and measuring vessels I could purchase (graduates ). At left is one sample of a small graduate I bought to add a bit of water or other fluid to a 16oz or 20oz graduate used for stirring (in the days when we used Imperial measure).<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, I &#8216;develop&#8217; with my computer and a photo editor to correct light balance, contrast, exposure, sharpness, framing, etc. By the way, you may find film developing gear or other odds and sods for you use or collection at our <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/remember-this-date-mate-july-16th-2023\/\">trunk sale this July16th<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In the days of film, darkroom work was all wet and gooey either in full darkness or with dim reddish or brownish illumination. Strange powders were measured out and added to water and mixed to create magical solutions. Some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/made-to-measure\/\">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":[1944],"tags":[286,14,4377,4375,4374,4376],"class_list":["post-26245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-darkroom","tag-film","tag-graduate","tag-measuring","tag-mixing","tag-vessel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26245","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=26245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26248,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26245\/revisions\/26248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}