{"id":32758,"date":"2025-11-13T01:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=32758"},"modified":"2025-11-13T00:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:44:31","slug":"dektol-the-halls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/dektol-the-halls\/","title":{"rendered":"Dektol the halls &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32759\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DEKTOL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32759\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32759\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DEKTOL-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">escape in D.D.O.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Just past mid last century, I used Kodak&#8217;s Dektol developer to process prints. Those who are frugal and wish to &#8220;roll their own&#8221; can use the D-72 formula in the old &#8220;Photo-Lab-Index&#8221; (not the compact one) or just <a href=\"https:\/\/afterness.com\/kod_d72.html\">browse the internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the safe light you can see the image pop up in the developer tray in minutes. Flip the paper to the stop (slightly acidic) bath for a few seconds and development stops instantly. Next use the hypo (fixer) solution to clear off the unused silver halides so the image doesn&#8217;t shift tone over time (especially with light exposure).<\/p>\n<p>A lengthy water wash removes all chemicals and hanging to dry gives you the final sparkling print (hopefully).<\/p>\n<p>If you are into film technology, visit our 2026 events for cameras, darkroom gear, lenses, and more. As the events unfold, I will post details here and stock pile them in the right hand side bar replacing the 2025 events.<\/p>\n<p>The hamsters? We had pair at one time and I popped them in a Dektol tin &#8211; in this shot they tried to escape the tin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Just past mid last century, I used Kodak&#8217;s Dektol developer to process prints. Those who are frugal and wish to &#8220;roll their own&#8221; can use the D-72 formula in the old &#8220;Photo-Lab-Index&#8221; (not the compact one) or just browse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/dektol-the-halls\/\">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":[286,3157,4822],"class_list":["post-32758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-darkroom","tag-developer","tag-positive-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32758","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=32758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32764,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32758\/revisions\/32764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}