From: Pam Niedermayer (pam_pine@cape.com)
Date: 03/09/01-01:34:12 PM Z
When it comes to technology, I have a theory that the more you know
the less capable your equipment need be. So while I could function
quite nicely with an old computer and almost no software (although I
won't, given the convenience of the new powerful stuff), someone new
to computers would not be able to function at all with such a device.
I'm brand new to pt/pd and other alternative processes. I can't see
that it would hurt (as long as I don't have to spend much) to take a
few measurements while learning. Probably after a while working in
this area, I won't need such devices.
Pam
Randall Webb wrote:
> ...
> I think I can go one further than the cowboy from Big Wonderful Wyoming .
> ... I now use the seriously impoverished
> man's densitometer. It consists of an ordinary 100watt lightbulb on my
> darkroom wall. Hold your neg up to it and if it looks right it is probably
> right.If its a lith neg you won't see much as it should have an end density
> of a brick wall. You don't HAVE to use any particular nett density for any
> process. You can use a 0.9 neg for pd and 3.5 for a gum print. There aint no
> rules. My " densitometer" cost about$1.30 and when it fails, I buy another
> one. But don't take too much notice of me. I use a camera whose shutter is a
> folded up focussing cloth held over the lens. ( Black side towards the
> lens!)
> Randall Webb
-- Pamela G. Niedermayer Pinehill Softworks Inc. 600 W. 28th St., Suite 103 Austin, TX 78705 512-236-1677 http://www.pinehill.com
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