From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 02/04/01-06:40:47 PM Z
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Dave Rose wrote:
>
> My exposure unit is a homemade fluorescent UV tube light box - approximately
> 22 x 26" O.D. (a size that you could use even in a $2,500 per month
Yes, that's about the size, but I need my borders... no room for holes.
> Manhattan studio apartment). The vacuum frame is also a homemade affair.
> The sheet of polyester covering my vacuum frame is flexible and will flex to
> accomodate the 'bumps' created by the Bregman pins.
The light goes through the polyester?
> ... One of
> my goals with gum printing has been to capture detail as clearly as
> possible. (Since I use a 4x5 view camera, I can't get away from that
> mindset).
I'm curious how you enlarge the 4x5 ???
> When I began gum printing, I re-registered negatives to prints by the
> 'center outwards' method, taping the two together when it looked right.
> Compared to my current method, that was always more time consuming,
> difficult, and yielded less satisfactory results (in terms of sharpness and
> capture of fine detail).
Maybe you just got better in the interim?
Judy
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