Since there are only a dozen or so Eastman Kodak posts as of today, I thought I'd continue to post one from time to time throughout the Spring and Summer months. This way, I might be able to get them up to the higher totals of the American Culture (23) and Frank's Vintage 3D Friday's (27) posts (which will return in the Fall).
Today's selection is a Kodak Advanced Data Book titled: Enlarging in Black-and-White and Color. It is from 1960, and the cover is shown above. The chapters are: Control Techniques; Enlarger Handling; Exposing; Processing; Contrast Determination; Color Paper & Equipment; Color Filters; Color Processing; Processing Faults; Print Faults Illustrated; and Chemical Mixing. Like most of Kodak's technical publications, it gives photographic examples of the instructional text. Below we see examples of processing faults:
I love to just thumb through Kodak publications of all sorts. In today's world, I've heard many sarcastic remarks about Kodak's depiction of so-called living reality, i.e. that life was nothing like the photos that Kodak would use to sell their products. Of course, this is coming from the same folks who rave about the Kia automobile commercials that show cars driven by hamsters singing hip-hop. I guess that some 'realities' are more acceptable and easier to believe than others.
-- Frank
