Posted by Peter Ceresole on October 10, 2003 at 22:32:05 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Photography in Coot Club posted by Ed Kiser on October 10, 2003 at 14:06:05:
Sorry for the incorrect chemistry.
Was it? It used to be hyposulphite... Or something- I forget too, as my darkroom days were infinitely long ago. But in photography it went on being called 'hypo' long after the chemical name had changed.
Anyway, we have an authority:
"Don't it stink?" said Pete.
"The hypo's almost worse," said Dick. "I say. We'll have to wash it and I never filled the bowl. Never mind. We can do it under the tap. And the hypo isn't ready. That's the worst of being in a hurry. Look! You did have the shutter open..."
BS p,376 Cape 1948.
I was eight or nine when I read it first, and I learnt about photography from the Big Six. Like I learnt about sailing from all the books, the difference being that I went on to do a lot of photography and to work with motion picture film as a film editor and TV producer, but never sailed except tamely on a Swiss lake. But my nephews are mad sailors,one of them, 'Canard', doing the Whitbread race as sailmaster aboard 'Merit' and now owning and running Europ'sails. Thanks to AR I know what he and his friends are talking about.