Don't be mislead. The Darkroom Cookbook is not just a collection of formulas. These make The Darkroom Cookbook a real bargain. The Darkroom Cookbook is destined to be a classic. Updated with new formulas and number of minor error corrections.
Photographic processing is a chemical process.
While it is not necessary to know anything about chemistry, it is necessary to understand what photographic chemicals do, and why. The Film Developing Cookbook will help photographers aquire a working knowledge of photographic chemistry that is relevant to black and white film developing and serves as a reference and refresher for photograhers of all stages of their skill. This companion to The Darkroom Cookbook will help photographer's familar with different developer formulas for acheiving a wide range of pictorial effects, and teach them how to mix and use photographic solutions from scratch - even to create new ones. Many of these developing formulas and archival fixing solutions contained in The Film Developing Cookbook have never before been presented. The authors have compiled from sources ordinary and obscure a treasure-trove of information from the everyday to the experimental, all of it useful and interesting.