[pure-silver] Re: Emulsion Peel-off and more questions
- From: Pablo Kolodny <pkolodny@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:15:19 -0300
Snoopy,
All I need is to put those nice wooden made cameras to work and as I'm mostly
making platinum/palladium prints…
As said before, getting liquid emulsion is kind of a mission impossible here.
Though I'll find out more, there's still one business that could manage to
stock some of that.
I wonder then, what's the better support to pour the liquid emulsion on
Greets
Pablo
On Nov 12, 2014, at 7:43 AM, Snoopy wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
>
> welcome :-)
>
> I am wondering why you want to peel off the emulsion off paper ? To
> reuse it to coat canvas or similar ?
>
> You can get "liquid emulsion" which you can use for that.
>
> Also peeing papers is a bit ricky because I think (i am not sure about
> Baryt/fiber papers) hat for papers the emulsion is also actually
> "layered" with an accelerator/devloper layer on top - at least for RC
> papers so that they devlop faster like in machines.
>
> So peeling it off you need to be very skillful in roder not to upset the
> order of the emulsion lyers.
>
> I might well be wrong in that the developer/accelerator (as AGFA used to
> call it) is actually dispersed within the emulsion, btu I always thought
> it was on top.
>
> B/W Film emulsion will peel off if you leave it in water for a while,
> but you might then get some of the anti-halation dye with it. So you
> should rinse beforehand and then do the "peeling off" rinse.
>
> Of course modern b/w films are also multi-layer so a similar caveat like
> above applies.
>
> Just a thought or two.
>
> Love,
> Snoopy
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