Lippmann plates
Luis Nadeau (awef6t@mrburns.mi.net)
Tue, 5 Nov 1996 09:48:12 -0400
james.browning@valley.net wrote:
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>the need of a lens / box arrangement. This is probably a long shot, so I
>would like to run it by someone who has actually made a Lippmann plate. The
>viewing angle would be small, but all of the light would enter the viewer's
>eye, possibly making for a very brilliant print, which of course, would
>never fade.
Not so fast. I have worked with thousands of silver gelatin glass plates
that showed various, sometimes extreme degrees of fading.
Luis Nadeau
nadeaul@nbnet.nb.ca
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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