[pure-silver] Re: spotting on RC
- From: Lloyd Erlick <lloyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:01:05 -0500
jan2805 from Lloyd Erlick
I'm sorry to say I think your best option is to remake the prints on FB. As
it stands, you are looking at quite a lot of work, and the result will
still be RC prints. (Yes, I am prejudiced against RC. Sorry.) (RC as in
resin coated, no religious bigotry...).
As to your specks due to glass carriers, could it be that your darkroom is
very dry? (Low relative humidity, RH, that is). With normal RH (anywhere
from 45 per cent to say about 60) there should be very little tendency for
electrostatic force to hold the specks on the glass. I put my neg on the
glass, tape its extremity to edge of the carrier, blast the glass and
negative with compressed gas (nitrogen in my case), blast the top glass,
close partially, blast the 'interior' as I close it, and slip into the
enlarger.
I think relative humidity is the largest factor in dust control. I have one
of those cheap temperature and humidity readouts from Radio Shack, and I
use it in conjunction with my humidifier in the winter. Keeping my darkroom
around 45% - 55% is easy, and successful in controlling dust. Once the
glass carriers are clean, they are no more difficult to keep clean than a
lens.
I have carried on at great length about this subject in an article on my
website www.heylloyd.com, under the technical heading in the table of
contents.
regards,
--le
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At 02:00 PM 1/27/2005 , >Becky Lynn wrote:
>I have a problem.... I've always used FB papers but I thought that I would
>try using RC because I'm part of a print exchange. I thought that it would
make
>the task of printing several prints, easier. WRONG
>Here's the situation:
>
>I used warm tone, VC peril RC
>
>I used a glass negative carrier to keep the negative flat because I knew the
>heat on the negative over an extended amount of time would cause it to flex.
>That was my first mistake. I cleaned the carrier but after the prints dried,
>there are a lot of tiny, tiny spots that I hadn't noticed when the print was
>wet.
>
>Before they had dried though, I sepia toned them and then selenium toned
>them. Washing in between, of course.
>
>Now I'm stuck trying to spot tone dual-toned prints on RC! grrrrrrrrrrr
>
>The RC isn't letting me spot them in the way that FB papers do. Also, I'm
not
>sure that the sepia spot toner is the right color. HELP :)
>
>Becky Lynn
>
>
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