[pure-silver] Re: Any advice for purchase of densitometer.
- From: "Breukel, C. (HKG)" <C.Breukel@xxxxxxx>
- To: "'pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:16:03 +0100
I too tried PMK Pyro, with the idea that one negative can be used for
"normal" silver gelatine printing as well as for alt. photo techniques sucht
as platinum, Kallitpe, Albumen printing. It worked to a certain extend. The
problem I had was that Pyro PMK gave quite a high B+F, ommiting the extra
stainig step after fixing with spend developer or Kodalk did help.
But printing on VC remained problematic, in those cases I switched to graded
paper. I than switched to PyrocatHD, which worked better in that respect
(much lower B+F also), but I use it on my 8*10 negatives on which I expect
to do some alt printing and on my IR negatives, exactly as Peter mentiones
below, the stain "tames" excessive highloghts, often encountered in IR
photography,
Best,
Cor
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter De Smidt [mailto:pdesmidt@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:55 PM
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Any advice for purchase of densitometer.
>
>
> DarkroomMagic wrote:
>
> >That's what I was afraid of. The pyro stain is the opposite
> of what I'm
> >after. Some photographers like the 'rolling-off' highlights; I prefer
> >brilliant, high-contrast highlights with maximized separation.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> I used PMK and Tri-X for a good while. I had problems getting good
> highlight separation when using VC papers. Yes, I did testing
> to try an
> fix this. It worked very well, though, for scenes of a very large
> brightness range. On the otherhand, Chuck Pere sent some very nice
> prints to the print exchange from Tmax 100 film developed in PMK.
>
> -Peter
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