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Re: development for alt-process
Al Weber uses Dektol with TriX a lot of the time and you can see his work in
the Kyoto Museum among 16 other museums world wide.
S. Shapiro
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Van Keuren" <svk@steuber.com>
To: "Alt Photo" <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 7:43 PM
Subject: development for alt-process
> My students and I develop our sheet film one piece at a time in varying
> dilutions of paper developer for somewhere between 1 1/2 and 3 minutes.
> About 20 years ago I accidentally developed some 4x5 Tri-X view camera
> negatives in Dektol instead of D76. Only in van dyke brown could I get
good
> contact prints from those negatives. But this mistake led me into a much
> less time-consuming way of processing sheet film of many kinds from all
> kinds of cameras for printing in cyanotype, van dyke, gum and even
> palladium.
>
> Sarah