Re: Bottem of the Van Dyke Barrel

["Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>]

Michael,
I did not find too much difference between year old VDB solution and totally 
fresh, exposed side by side.  I did find a color difference, though, the new 
looked warmer and less grey.

BTW if doing VDB you have to buy the Weston paper...it is beautiful on it.
Chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Koch-Schulte" <mkochsch@shaw.ca>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 5:57 PM
Subject: Bottem of the Van Dyke Barrel


> At first I thought it was my printer and inks. Then I thought it was a
> change in my workflow somewhere. Maybe it was my coating method. No. It 
> may
> seem like a silly question but is it just normal that emulsions like VDB,
> Cyanotype and others start to gain speed over time? I don't do a lot of 
> VDB
> but recently I was testing some of my remaining solution from a batch from
> last year and it seems to be printing three or four times faster than it 
> did
> initially.
>
> ~m