Re: salt prints and selen toner

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From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 09/09/01-04:06:13 PM Z


Lukas, if you're using Kodak Rapid Selenium it has fixer in it, so it's
fixing out, that is, bleaching the salt print.

You can either allow for that when exposing or use a home-brew selenium
toner that doesn't have fixer or tone with gold or other metal or.......
????

Judy

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Lukas Werth wrote:

> I tried to tone a salt print with selen toner today. I think it got toned:
> the colour changed to a brown similar to how it looks when it comes out of
> the fixer, but it also got leached considerably.
>
> How can this be avoided? The recommendation for my toner is, "for toning
> from 1:3 to 1:19", and for "stabilisation of silver 1:20 to 1:40. I diluted
> 1:30. Is this still too high a concentration?
>
> Lukas
>
>


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