Eh Pete?<
On the old basis of keeping things simple, all my early gum prints were
made using Ilfospeed with no oil and no tearing off the emulsion. These
operations really are quite unnecessary for gum. The whole paper negative
will give results as good as film with good gradation and fine detail with
no risk of damaging the neg or getting grease on the print. There are also
advantages in maintaining registration.
As an alternative to large scanned images, now that Typon, Sep Neg 2 and
N31p are no longer available, a good grade 1 paper does the job very well.
For the longer range negs, suitable for salt or pt/pd, exposures maybe a
little long though.
Terry King
Terry King