[pure-silver] Re: Emulsion Peel-off and more questions
- From: Pablo Kolodny <pkolodny@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:31:13 -0300
Thanks Richard, sounds a good idea.
And yes, I think the easiness/trickiness of peeling off stuff must have to do
with papers characters.
I'll go where you're sending me to.
Pablo
On Nov 12, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> You might try asking in the Alternative Processes list. Peeled off emulsion
> is used for some processes. I've never been able to make it work but I think
> others have. I suspect it depends on the particular paper.
>
> http://www.altphotolist.org/
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pablo Kolodny" <pkolodny@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 8:57 PM
> Subject: [pure-silver] Emulsion Peel-off and more questions
>
>
> Hi all, I know I'm rather a lurker here and actually and honestly I don't do
> much email lists anymore but this time some questions assaulted me at the
> time of setting up up my new workspace, a nice tiny not so untidy gallery
> plus a nice tidy darkroom. So here I go:
>
> First is what about peeling silver paper emulsion off, which route to go
> better through, RC of fiber ?
> One of most beautiful things I had the chance to dig up is my three vintage
> wooden made cameras. A 12x18, a 18x24 and a 24x30. All of them with backs and
> in pretty good working order though the 12x18 looks a bit beaten.
>
> What I mostly do is platinum/palladium prints so thought to use those cameras
> as a source for my negs.
> Big issue is that film that size is not hard to get here in Argentina but
> just impossible. Then the idea of peeling off.
>
> If this is too tricky, my hands got clumsier now, or for any reason this
> won't work I'd still like to use silver paper as a negative, then scan and
> make digital negs which I already make since a while with kinda success.
> Another choice would be to go for X ray film though I don't have the
> slightest idea about its speed nor how to process but both would hopefully be
> easy to learn I guess.
>
> So what would you suggest I better start with ?
> Any help will strongly be thanked.
>
> cheers
>
> Pablo
>
>
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