Re: Gum prints with the enlarger

Risa S. Horowitz (babbleon@terraport.net)
Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:46:20 -0400

Klaus
I'd be willing to spend a decade figuring the darned technique out for
myself before paying such a fee to a private individual for holding his
silly trade secret. I can't say it outright, but ($#(*# that!!!!!!!!!!!

Even more interesting to me, would be to get together with 4+
friends/aquaintances and create a darned think-tank of our own!!!

I suppose his philosophy makes it clear why Mr. Berger hasn't (or at least I
haven't seen him) joined this list. Finder's Keepers was always a silly game
IMHO.

Oh well, I always was a bit of a dreamer.

Truly
Risa S. Horowitz
babbleon@terraport.net

>Some time ago I wrote on the list, that Phillipe Berger from Belgium had
found a
>way to sensitize paper for gum dichromate printing so it can be exposed with an
>ordinary enlarger - directly from a 35mm negative. However he does not want to
>reveil his secret without some financial equivalent. He now wrote to me that he
>is willing to send a booklet (22 pages) for 600,-- DEM (400 USD), in which he
>explains this process, as well as his approach to tricolor gum and the Sury
>Color process, which he reinvented. The fee would include a demonstration (in
>french) of his gum process for a group of max. 5 persons at his home in
>Comblain-au-Port, Belgium.
>
>It was not clear to me yet, wether every new user of the process would have to
>pay this sum, or wether this would be his *daguerrian* pension for making the
>process available to all of us...
>
>Anybody interested or any comments?
>
>Klaus Pollmeier
>
>