Science: Picture While You Wait

An impatient man has no business in a photographic darkroom, but if one should find himself there, Eastman Kodak is ready to ease his dank tedium. Ready last week were two new fast-action print papers: Resisto N for contact prints, Resisto Rapid for enlargements.

Print papers have a gelatinous silver emulsion on a tough paper base. In the Resisto papers the base is impregnated with an acetate which makes it practically waterproof. Developing, fixing and washing solutions are thus absorbed by the emulsion only. Using Resisto, photographers need take only two minutes for fixing, four minutes for washing, three minutes for...

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