35mmc: Reading for the Long Weekend

The 35mmc blog posted a wrapup of articles this week.  From Kosmo Foto's new 120 film, a review of Kodak E100, a review of a sharp Ricoh lens on a Leica, some Konica point & shoot cameras worth looking into, a darkroom timer from Maya with all the features one would expect from a modern computerized timer, and a perspective on the Kodak Brownie.  Oh, and more good news on Tetenal.

Read on!

Link: How Film Develops

One photographer set out on a mission to determine when he could take the film out of a the processing tank and look at it under room lighting.  To do this, he found out the simplified chemical reactions involved in processing a roll of film.

If you can remember your high school chemistry, you should be able to follow along.

Check out Film Photography Blog's article, Film Processing Chemistry, How Does It Work.

Oh, and the answer to his question?  It is at the end of the article.

Tetenal

The news has been around the web on the demise of Tetenal GmbH.  This is the German arm of the conglomerate that originated in Germany and has been around since the late 1800s.

However, Tetenal UK has announced that it is fine and doing well.  There is also a North American supplier of products from Tetenal, so the familiar C41 and E6 home processing kits should remain available for the time being.

As this story unfolds, sites such as emulsive.org and so on should have the latest news.

For now, no reason to panic, despite the loss of part of a company that is core to colour film processing.