[alt-photo] Re: New Platinum Prints

[Christina Anderson]

Loris,
This is one case where "small is better" :)

I get a 1x1 pixel target with pt/pd and cyanotype--actually any process where the solution sinks into the paper.  WIth gum I get a 2x2.

Christina Z. Anderson
christinaZanderson.com

On Apr 12, 2010, at 2:37 AM, Loris Medici wrote:

> Actually it's beneficial to use a long scale process with digital negatives
> (as long as the inks can give sufficient density of course!), since the low
> contrast emulsion masks printer's dithering / weaving pattern pretty
> efficiently, giving very smooth and rich tonalities. Keeping all else
> constant (such as printer, transparency material, paper...), I can see the
> dithering with cyanotype whereas I can't see it with pop pd, and the pd
> prints aren't less sharp than cyanotype prints at all... (Both will show 2x2
> pixels checkerboard pattern in 360ppi file resolution, which makes ~7 lines
> per mm print resolution. This is the max I can get from my printer anyway.)
> 
> Regards,
> Loris.