Monthly Archives: March 2009

Iodine – love it or hate it: it’s awesome.

Iodine is critical to photography.  Like the other halogens, Iodine forms a light-reactive salt when exposed to silver called Silver Iodide.  Expose the Silver Iodide to light and PRESTO! it turns black.  Cool, huh?  This reaction is so critical to … Continue reading

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