From: Chris Read (chris.read1@btinternet.com)
Date: 01/20/01-01:57:31 AM Z
Judy,
Your contact frame sounds great - I'm planning on improving my current rig
which is simply a chain store sun-lamp, only good for 8x10 (though very
effective).
A couple of questions: - what kind of UV tubes do you use, and are they easy
to get? And how do you do test strips with your set-up?
Thanks,
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 9:05 AM
Subject: contact frame
>
> My fluorescent strips sit on the table, bulb up. There are wooden sides
> left and right, a sheet of plate glass sits on top of them (about 26" by
> 34 "), held in place by small molding on each side. The paper/ negative
> sandwich (taped together) goes on that glass, negative down. A second
> sheet of plate glass goes over that... a sheet of soft black vinyl on top
> of that to block the light, then two or three, or more, gallon jugs of
> paint or water or whatever. (I plan a photo of it in next P-F.) I can't
> really dodge & burn, tho I do a kind of crude dodging by waving a
> cardboard over the bulbs in areas I want to hold back.
>
> Contact is EXCELLENT. Except some problems when doing test strips on very
> heavy paper -- the weights don't always flatten out those little
> curlicues. I'll add that since my exposures for gum are 1 to 2 minutes, it
> saves a lot of opening & closing spring back.
>
> In the meantime, sorry to disappoint, and thanks for asking...
>
> Judy
>
>
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