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The Birth of Photography: Drawing With Light (and silver iodide)
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Cameras. How do they work?00:00 Intro
00:32 Camera Obscura
05:37 Conception of photography
06:37 The Daguerreotype process
10:19 Examining a daguerreotype
12:04 The strange viewing properties of the daguerreotype
14:44 The Ambrotype
17:20 The Tintype
19:10 Eastman Kodak and the path to mass-adoption
22:05 120 film format
24:25 A 120 format camera's quirks and features
27:44 Loading it with film
30:52 Using the camera
33:31 Unloading the camera
35:25 Bloopers
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Making Film Reveal its Image: the B&W Development Process (Photography Part 2)Technology Connections 1.48M subscribers
Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!00:00 Intro
01:42 What the emulsion is and how it works
04:53 Preparing the film for development
07:18 A note on developing tank styles and why I prefer plastic tanks
09:16 Loading the 120 film onto the reel
10:42 Developers! Developers! Developers!
12:24 Stand development
15:22 The development process
18:20 Fixer
20:39 Rinsing and Photo-flo
21:53 A Mishap
22:50 Image reveal
23:33 A viewing trick
24:12 Outro, credits, & bloopers