X-Nico

3 unusual facts about photographic processing


Character creation

The term character development is, in some contexts, used interchangeably with character advancement (in a sense similar to professional development or Human Development), whereas elsewhere character development refers instead to the player’s indirect characterization of the character through role-playing (in a sense similar to film developing).

Northwest African Photographic Reconnaissance Wing

During the first half of 1943, the Wing also flew a single Potez 540, a war prize modified to serve as a flying photo processing laboratory.

Photographic processing

Modern colour negative film is developed with the C-41 process and colour negative print materials with the RA-4 process.


Sodium thiosulfate

In this application to photographic processing, discovered by John Herschel and used for both film and photographic paper processing, the sodium thiosulfate is known as a photographic fixer, and is often referred to as hypo, from the original chemical name, hyposulphite of soda.


see also

Photochemical milling

Photoengraving, a process of engraving using photographic processing techniques