LIGHT-SENSITIVE MATERIALS & CHEMICAL INDEX

This INDEX in the site of the HOME + STUDIO of E. WESLY & SONS as its title denotes is devoted to the fundamental element that defines a hologram, the physical aspect. There are a variety of holographic recording materials,

There are other sources on the Web, but these are my own working impressions, from experience, mainly at the School of Hard Knox.  This site is not intended to be a be-all and end-all for the art, science, and technology of holography, but I am proud to say that there is more useful information of a higher quality here than in a variety of holography books, forums, and wikis, although this labor of love is far from complete.
Some links go directly to classroom handouts or papers, or sometimes to a sub-index page with a variety of links on the topic.  Once in a great while there is a link to an outside site when it is considered necessary or appropriate.

These resources come from classroom handouts I had written for classes taught at Gallery 1134, Lake Forest College Holography Workshops, Columbia College, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Harrington College of Design.  Their origin is noted when hovering over the link. For a look at them in the context for which they were created, go here for the Gallery 1134 Handouts, Instruction Manual for Room B013,for those from SAIC, (particularly pertinent to this topic is the Darkroom section), and here for the Optics Classes, Titles of published or unpublished papers are in quotation marks.

Also linked from this page are topics in photographic chemistry, as the holographic type evolved out of that.

The earliest ones pre-date the dawn of the personal computer age, and were typed on a typewriter, titled with rub-off Letrasets, with illustrations hand drawn or literally cut and pasted graphics.  Later ones were typed on a computer in WordPerfect 4.2 or 5.1, but still retained cut and pasted graphics as flatbed scanners were not common at that time.  The latest ones are products of the 21st century, and take advantage of all the bells and whistles Adobe and Microsoft afford us.  Hopefully someone will find them useful!

The shortcut ctrl + w or cmd + w will be helpful in closing the windows when you are finished reading them.

A
Agfa Holotest

AgX

ambrotypes

ASA/ANSI film speed

B
bleach formulas

bleach, laundry

bleaching

C
cartes-des-visites

"Controlling the Effect of Ultraviolet Light on Holographic Emulsions"

D
Daguerreotypes

as a holographic recording material

by Ed Wesly

19th century samples

density

developer formulas

diffraction efficiency, measuring

E
exposure

exposure tests

exposure ettiquette

F
ferrotypes

Filmholder

Fuji F HL

f/stop

G
grey card

H
handling hints

holographic plate boxes

I
Ilford Scientific Products

"Interferometric Shakedown Of A Vibration Isolation System"

intermodulation noise

ISO/ASA

J
Jeong, Tung Hon

K
Kodak holographic plates and film

L
laundry bleach

lumens, (photographic prints)

M
melainotypes

N

O
optics cleaning

P
plateholders

plateholder, evolution of

"Practical Method Of Measuring Diffraction Efficiency"

"Progress in True Color Holography"

Q
"Quantitative Measurement of Holographic Image Quality Using Adobe Photoshop",

R
Rallison, Richard

"Recycling Holographic Plates"

resolution test targets

resolving power

S
Science & Mechanics Super-Sensitive Light Meter

sodium hypochlorite

spectral sensitivity

T
"A Toast to Nick Phillips"

tintypes

Triethanolamine

Triethanolamining

true color holography

U
USAF 1951 resolution target

W

X

Z