Hi Dan,
Some folks reading that last line are probably waiting to see if I'm still
alive, because those are fighting words. Of course, strictly speaking,
you're right, "gum isn't exactly *known* as a process that holds fine
detail."
But the notion that gum *can't* do fine detail is one of those myths of
gum printing that I am so often forced to correct -- on this list and
elsewhere, as for instance, Issue #1, World Journal of Post-Factory
Photography, page 9...
QUOTE:
It's true that sometimes gum doesn't *want* to do fine detail, especially
if you've been torturing it with rough paper and all those coats of
emulsion mushing up the outlines and drawing....But gum can get absolutely
everything in the negative -- in one coat, if the scale of the negative
matches the scale of the emulsion. It can get detail nearly as fine as
platinum, should you so desire, and plenty of printers made exactly that
point in the early articles.
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Thanks DanPhoto, and believe me folks I never met the man.
Judy