{"id":9695,"date":"2017-10-01T08:10:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=9695"},"modified":"2017-09-27T13:36:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T17:36:58","slug":"double-double-toil-and-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/double-double-toil-and-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"double, double, toil and trouble&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/photo-chemistry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9697\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/photo-chemistry-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Toronto.<\/strong>\u00a0As Shakspeare&#8217;s girls say while making bat-wing soup in Macbeth. I bought this delightful little book by Kodak in January, 1960 for $1.25 &#8211; and no tax.<\/p>\n<p>I was busy absorbing all I could about the complexities of developing and printing B&amp;W and colour as I did my own B&amp;W and colour slides &#8211; and attempted colour printing using Ferraniacolour. I whipped up my own chemistry for B&amp;W from basic ingredients &#8211; just like the Macbeth girls made their soup.<\/p>\n<p>In the heyday of photography, magazines and books on the subject were plentiful and all wanted to teach you the many facets of photography. I had a pricy Exakta camera, a couple of added lenses, an old Federal enlarger with an iffy light conversion to a softer light for colour printing using two aluminum pie tins and a circular florescent bulb.<\/p>\n<p>The little booklet <em>Photo Chemistry<\/em> gave me an introduction to the complexities of the art and science of photography in layman&#8217;s terms I could understand. And right there on page 12 facing left is our little wet plate man! In five brief pages the history pf photography was succinctly covered from the view-point of Eastman Kodak, Rochester, at the time the largest and most successful photography company of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto.\u00a0As Shakspeare&#8217;s girls say while making bat-wing soup in Macbeth. I bought this delightful little book by Kodak in January, 1960 for $1.25 &#8211; and no tax. I was busy absorbing all I could about the complexities of developing and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/double-double-toil-and-trouble\/\">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":[20],"tags":[1444,1040,15,21,1443],"class_list":["post-9695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","tag-1444","tag-bw","tag-colour","tag-kodak","tag-w-39"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695","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=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9700,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions\/9700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}