Lippmann plates

Luis Nadeau (awef6t@mrburns.mi.net)
Tue, 5 Nov 1996 09:48:12 -0400

james.browning@valley.net wrote:
.
>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
http://www.mi.net/dialin/awef6t/