Although it is correct to call platinum an iron process, it is NEVER going to
be correct to call it a non-platinum process.
Nor is it ever going to be correct to call kallitype or salt prints
'non-silver'.
Alternative does the job, I have seen no realistic suggestions for an
alternative name to this, nor do I see any urgent reason for change,
I'd also agree we have spent too much time & space on the discussion.
Peter Marshall
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> Terry King said:
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> >Carlos
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> >I suppose platinum, in the same way, is a non platinum process ?
> >Terry King
> >
>
> You are right Terry.=20
> Platinum prints are a ferric, or better an iron process that prints a
> platinum image.
> I classify photographic processes according to the light sensitive
> compound, not the image forming material, and I am not the only one to do
> it...
>
> Quoting Mike Ware in "Alternative Printing: a Conspectus":
>
> "(...)Most of the methods fall into three categories from the photochemical
> point of view, depending on the light sensitive metal compound involved:
> wether it=B4s a salt of silver, iron or chromium.petermarshall@cix.compulink.co.uk (...)".
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> Carlos Gasparinho
> SMTP:nop51076@mail.telepac.pt
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> Kallitypes are for real
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