[pure-silver] Re: Emulsion Peel-off and more questions
- From: "Jose Ramon" <joseramon1834@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:01:58 -0300
Hi Pablo
First of all congratulations for your new workspace with tidy Gallery and
wet darkroom.
Some years ago I made some experiments with my wooden old cameras 24x30 cm
and 30x40 cm using either enlarging photo paper and x-Ray film as negatives.
The results with photo enlarging paper as negatives and contact printig were
excellent making emulsion to emulsion contact and illuminatig throug the
base paper.
Using X- Ray is also easy as can be manipulated under red safelights, but in
my short experiences the results were rather soft (using Dektol paper
developper) as this films have two emulsions one on each side of the base
film, so the image is too thick.
The old lenses used gave astonishing detail in such big negatives, (Goerz
Dagor 360mm/f= 6,8 ; Rudolph H Meyer Doppel Plasmat 1:4 / 36 cm ; Emil
Busch Nº 5 Pantoskop wide angle f= 245 mm F 1:22 ; Carl Zeiss Tessar 305mm
f= 6,3 ; Dallmeyer Stigmatic Seres II soft focus 1:6 f= 22 cm and others)
I think that the paper-contact way should work for your platinium/paladium
prints.
Please comment.
Jose Ramon
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From: "Pablo Kolodny" <pkolodny@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 1:57 AM
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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