| Some of the books
shown below are now rare and showing their age. |
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| “Kodachrome
and Kodacolor Films” – published by Eastman Kodak 4th
Edition, printed in 1948, mostly on Kodachrome but 10 pages on
“Kodacolor Photography”. Includes a chart on how to
judge Kodacolor prints |
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| “Printing
Color Negatives” published by Eastman Kodak Co. 1st Edition,
printed in 1958. It
gives instructions on how to make successful prints using the
then, new, Kodak Color Printing Filters which could be placed
in a filter draw above the negative (white light printing). |
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“Printing
Color Negatives”. This is the 3rd Edition of the Eastman
Kodak Manual and the man on the cover is admiring the (then new)
Kodak Rapid Print Processor, Model 16K. This could process a
16 x 20 inch colour print in 7½ minutes.
The 3rd Edition ran to three printings; 1964, 1965, and 1966,
but the cover remained the same for each printing. |
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| “Printing
Color Negatives” A reprint of the 4th Edition second printing,
(1970) reprinted in 1972. This book includes two “Data Release
“ sheets on the then new Ektacolor 37RC paper and Ektaprint
3 chemicals. Otherwise it describes printing on Kodak Ektacolor
Professional paper and processing with Ektaprint C chemicals.
Published by Eastman Kodak Co. |
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| “Printing
Color Negatives” 5th Edition, First printing, printed in
1975. Published by Eastman Kodak Co. It gives instructions on
Ektaprint 3 chemistry, and printing Ektacolor and Vericolor II
negatives on Ektacolor 37RC paper. |
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| This is a rare
“Kodak Ltd London” publication published in 1962 in
the U.K. It describes white light printing onto Ektacolor paper
using the P-122 process in dishes and tanks. Similar to the U.S.
book “Printing Color Negatives” (1958) but written
for the U.K. market. It has a section on making very large color
prints and examples on how to calculate filtration changes when
changing between different batches of colour paper. A 2nd Edition
of the book was published in 1967. |
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| P-122 Seven-Bath
processing chart to hang up in your darkroom. Dated May 1962,
printed by Kodak Ltd London |
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| An Eastman
Kodak instruction sheet showing the first and last pages for
the P-122 Six-Bath process. It gives a good description of the
process, dilutions of various solutions, replenishment rates,
storage of solutions, and details of the processing procedure
in tanks and dishes. It is dated December 1962. |
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| A C-22 process
chart to hang up in your darkroom. Dated May 1962, Printed by
Kodak Ltd London. |
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| The 1st Edition
of Eastman Kodak’s “Color Films” book. Published
in July 1950, it contains information on storage, processing,
filters, colour balance and speed of 10 different colour films
available at that time for sale in the U.S.A. including Kodachrome
Professional Sheet film. |
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Acknowledgements: |
| Michael Talbert
tells me "I was given the two process charts (P-122 and
C-22) by a kind lecturer at Medway College of Art in 1970 who
first showed me how to make a colour print. |
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