Melvin Dorin (mdorin@beckman.com)
Mon, 02 Aug 1999 14:22:14 -0800
Judy:
The negative was too dense mostly because of the stain density and the
silver density caused by the runaway pyro. Live and learn. Using the RC as
a diapositive for the enlarged negative was successful, but I wouldn't want
to do this routinely. It just happened to save a doomed negative for other
than silver printing! It sure beats reducing the negative and the risks
associated with that. Hard to find a good, controllable, super-proportional
reducer. Better to have a good negative to begin with, obviously. Peeling
paper just doen't seem like it's worth all that effort, especially if it's
so easy to make a decent negative from the whole print--backing and all.
Mel Dorin
Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com> on 08/02/99 11:33:00 AM
Please respond to alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
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Subject: Re: Rethinking: RC peel appeal
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Melvin Dorin wrote:
>
>
> To this discussion on peeled RC, I would like to add that I (last week)
> made an enlarged neg from a "bulletproof" pyro developed neg that got
away
> from me. This "bulletproof" neg would not print for Pd/Pt, but printed
for
> Ag (after a Grade 0 session) on Ilford Multi III RC. Using the Ag
positive,
> I exposed a sheet of Agfa N31p as a contact neg. The results were quite
> good, and the resulting Pd print was quite pleasing. Very small loss of
> sharpness--almost unnoticed. This saved the negative, as far as I was
> concerned, and I didn't peel anything. Exposing through the RC print took
> 15 seconds using an enlarger source as the light with full aperture on
the
> lens.
Wow, that really must have been a dense negative! I often contact thru
*doubleweight* fiber paper -- and those exposures are only f8 for 15 or 20
seconds, although that's on lith, which may be faster than the N31P.
Of course the RC print is better as "paper" positive if you happen to
have one -- it lies flat better & has no paper texture.
Judy
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