Sandy King (sanking@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Wed, 03 Nov 1999 08:38:45 -0400
Dave,
Yes, Carolina weather is nice. It is cool today but there is still a lot of
fall color left and the landscape is quite stunning.
The only thing easier about monochrome carbro is that you can work with a
small negative and can do normal dodging and burning in as you do in silver
on the bromide that serves as the carbro printer. Everything else is more
complicated: the carbro bleaching chemistry is more complex than the carbon
sensitizer and must be mixed just right, temperature and humidity
requirements are more demanding, and the carbro image is much more likely
to frill than a carbon one on warm water development, even when everything
else is perfect.
For color work you continue to have these problems with carbro but they are
balanced by one critically important difference in the way the carbon and
carbro reliefs develop in warm water: the carbro relief has a finite
development point (irrespective of time or temperture), while carbon will
have more or less density depending on water temperture and time of
develoment. This makes it much easier to achieve repeatable and consistent
color matching with carbro.
Sandy
>> Even so, in my own work I have found it easier
>> to make good color prints with carbro than carbon, though for monochrome
>> work I find carbon highly preferable.
>
>Hi Sandy,
>
>I haven't done either but want to try some as the weather is getting colder.
>Today we have rain mixed with snow! Aren't you glad you are in Carolina?
>
>Sometimes books give the false impression that carbro is easier than carbon,
>but from what you say it seems like monochrome carbon is easier than carbro,
>so is the advantage of carbro basically that you don't have to make enlarged
>negatives and don't need a UV light source?
>
>But for color you said that carbro was easier, is it because one can use
>variable contrast paper and adjust the contrast there? or are there other
>reasons?
>
>TIA!
>
>
>Dave S
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