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Mysteries Of The Vortex (Part One)
Mysteries Of The Vortex (Part One)
Author: Martin Reed (Silverprint)
Published by Les McLean
19th November 2008
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Mysteries of the Vortex is a comprehensive article on print washing written by Martin Reed of Silverprint in 1996 and published by the American magazine, Photo Techniques. Martin would like to acknowledge the input of Mike Gristwood, formerly employed by Ilford in their Research and Development department, and Robin Whetton of Nova who supplied the equipment used in making the tests.


The article is the most detailed description of best practice washing methods that I've read and would suggest that you read and seriously consider following Martin's recommendations and suggestions.

Les McLean

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By Mike O'Pray on 20th November 2008, 12:40 AM
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Many thanks for this Les. Now it's set out and easily accessible.

Mike
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By Argentum on 20th November 2008, 10:44 AM
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Thanks for that Les, I've snaffled it and converted into pdf for local reference.
Now if part 2 was only in text format instead of scanned magazine pages I could do the same but with a much smaller file size.
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By Ag-Bromide on 21st November 2008, 08:57 PM
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I hope Martin Reed makes it available as a PDF for downloading (unless I`ve missed it on Silverprint`s site).
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By Argentum on 21st November 2008, 09:13 PM
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Part 2 is available from the web site but its scanned pages from a magazine which makes it 16MB.

http://www.silverprint.co.uk/pdf.asp

mysteries of the vortex part 2
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By Dave miller on 21st November 2008, 09:41 PM
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We will be posting part two here shortly.
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By Andrew Bartram on 26th November 2008, 08:56 PM
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What a fantastic resourse this User Group is! I have long mourned the demise of "Darkroom User" Magazine and regularly re-read the original "Silverprint Manual" that went on to be the original AG+ Periodical (now sadly too much devoted to digi stuff I don't want to think about).
Some of the above was indeed published in the Silverprint manual.
Thanks Les for making it available
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By Martin Aislabie on 9th December 2008, 01:46 PM
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What a well argued piece of work, with some back-up data to support his case.

So often these articles are a mixture of old wives tales and opinioneering.

Thanks for posting it Les

The only thing that puzzles me - why Martin doesn't have this article on his web site along side Part2 ?

Martin
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By Les McLean on 9th December 2008, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Martin Aislabie View Post
What a well argued piece of work, with some back-up data to support his case.

So often these articles are a mixture of old wives tales and opinioneering.

Thanks for posting it Les

The only thing that puzzles me - why Martin doesn't have this article on his web site along side Part2 ?

Martin
When I spoke to Martin to ask his permission to use the article he asked me to let him have the scans I made from the original publication for he had lost his copy of the first part.
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By Dave miller on 9th December 2008, 05:32 PM
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When I spoke to Martin to ask his permission to use the article he asked me to let him have the scans I made from the original publication for he had lost his copy of the first part.
He could just post a link to this site.
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