From: Sandy King (sanking@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Date: 01/01/04-01:07:50 PM Z
Judy Seigel wrote:
>
>Jack, you force me to point out that contrast in cyanotype is largely a
>factor of the paper -- as explained at great, even exhaustive, length in
>Post-Factory #5. Average papers print 7 to 8 or 9 steps on the 21 step,
>"contrasty" papers may print as few as 5, and longscale papers as many as
>12.
>
>As for brightness or *strength* of the blue, again as noted in cyanotype
>Issue #5, double coating "classic" cyano on a good-for-cyano paper seems
>to give same density/intensity as "new" cyano, with much stabler emulsion
>(it NEVER crashes). What's more, the relatively benign ingredients are
>easy to mix & a fraction of the cost.
>
I am more than a little hopeful that the extensive and most
authoritative considerations given to the cyanotype in issue #5 of
Post-Factory will make it totally unnecessary to further discuss it
during the coming year. From my personal perspective the *best* part
about the article on cyanotype was that it spared us from having to
look at these photographic aberrations of abysmal blue which are,
sparing a few and lord save us from the wrath of our friends, so
terribly permanent in their wretchedness.
Sandy King
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