From: shannon stoney (sstoney@pdq.net)
Date: 09/23/01-06:27:08 AM Z
I found a used one at a camera store here in Houston, Houston Camera
Exchange. It was $25. Maybe that was a lucky find though. I like
the hinged back. If you can't find one on ebay or in a camera store,
Bostick and Sullivan sells them but they are a bit pricey. I think
using pieces of glass or plexi is a good idea to start with, but you
won't be able to examine the print during printing out processes like
cyanotype, where you judge exposure by how the image looks during
exposure. With cyanotype, that's not a big problem though, because
the emulsion is so cheap that you can just keep making prints until
you find out what the right amount of exposure time is.
For paper, my favorites are Crane's platinotype (cream, not bleached)
from Bostick and Sullivan and Photographer's Formulary, and Whatman's
Fine Printmaking paper, which some art supply stores have, but I
ordered mine from New York Central in NYC. (Ask them to pack it
flat. They rolled mine up and it got damaged.) I've heard ARches
Platine from Daniel Smith is good too. I use all these for making
cyanotypes, which is an easy first alt-process to learn.
--shannon
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