[rollei_list] Re: OT: Antiques Roadshow... Photography Edition
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:26:43 -0400
Yet to be noted is the exceptional challenge of making optical prints from
glass plates. They have a lot of contrast and require special printing out
paper. Even with that special paper, it takes a master printer to get an
exceptional piece.
If done digitally, you would want to use a HDR methodology, marry the scans
and control contrast from there...
Eric Goldstein
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 04:49 PM 7/28/2010, David Sadowski wrote, in part:
>
> As for the detailed printing instructions someone referred to, what
> Adams did in 1937 may have been different than what he did in 1977.
> Maybe he did have detailed instructions that got separated from these
> negs, or maybe they were destroyed in that 1937 fire. Or maybe the
> detailed instructions were something that came later in his career.
>
>
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> I wrote that memory, as told to me by a wonderful close friend who I went
> to school with in Oklahoma, starting with the 1st grade and continuing
> through college, the difference is that he studied medicine so we eventually
> went to different physical locations the last 2-3 years.
>
> My late friend eventually became chief of staff at a hospital in Santa
> Clara, CA, and we saw each other about every year or two until he passed
> away around year 2,000.
>
> I would tend to assume that it was only late in his career that Adams
> stopped doing his own prints and thus the detailed instructions came into
> being. My friend used the terms "negative" and "envelope" and since he was
> a photographer in his own right, would surely have used "plate" if they had
> been glass. I am certain the print was one of the more famous ones but not
> the most famous. I think he paid on the order of $150 for it and there were
> others that sold for quite a bit more.
>
> I will send a note to his son and find out specifically which picture my
> friend bought.
>
> DAW
>
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