Calotype process
Richard Morris (Richard.Morris@brunel.ac.uk)
Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:54:03 BST
Hello to the world! I am a newcomer to this service being interested in
the subject through family connections. My wife is related to several
pioneers including Fox Talbot. I am doing a PhD at Brunel university on
John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810-82) who married a cousin of Talbot's. I am a
past Chairman of the Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group and
belong to other historical groups in the UK. I do recognise some of your
names, having met probably on ESHPh events in the UK or other conferences
here. I have been looking through the Archives (what a great source of info
they are) and found several like minded folk interested in the Calotype
process. If you are still out there, your queries date from 1994/5, do
please communicate with me either via this service or my own e-mail, or
even snail mail at "Long Gable, Cherrytree Lane, Chalfont St Peter, Bucks
SL9 9DQ, UK" I have been calotyping for some years, running workshops in
the UK and Germany and have some work in the Bradford Museum. I would like
very much to discuss paper problems in particular and is silver nitrate as
used today too pure etc? I have found differences between different
suppliers. On paper I normally use Stag Turkey Mill, now obsolete and even
have some sheets of R Turners Patent Talbotype paper which I have had
analysed if anyone is interested in the results. I have a contact at a New
York University who is also calotyping though I don't know if he is a
subscriber to this service. We are trying to solve a few problems
especially on paper and formulae.
Apologies for the verbosity but it tells you who I am! Look forward to my
screen being inundated with replies.
Richard Morris