[pure-silver] Re: The Good Old Days
- From: titrisol <titrisol@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:10:39 -0700 (PDT)
Poly lure was a very good paper, nice warm tone with
polycontrast.
Still couldn't replace good ol'Portriga when I tried it
--- jeffrey <puresilver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Off-topic, but it reminds me...
>
> One of my fondest memories of working in a lab was the day
> that a guy
> came in to the shop with something he found in some relative's
> house.
> It was a few boxes of plate glass negatives. About 150 of
> them.
>
> He had us make contact prints of all of them. Most were 5x7.
> Such a
> feeling of times past. Portraits. Scenes around the yard.
> Everything
> with people in it was static and posed. I was only 20 - I had
> only
> heard about glass plates in books.
>
> Of course we used a warm-toned fiber paper (can't remember
> which -
> some Kodak stock).
>
>
> >
> >Dang! I miss the personalities of many of those papers.
> Everything now
> >is so bland.
> >
> >-Bill
>
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