From: Keith Carter (carterkd@hal.lamar.edu)
Date: 04/29/02-04:10:20 PM Z
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Judy Seigel wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, stephen wasilewski wrote:
>
> > I first printed a negative using a printer's plate
> > burner and was very please with sharpness.
> >
> > Subsequent prinings using a flourescent bank gave very
> > reduced sharpness with some detail disappearing.
>
> The question has been gone over so carefully it's not likely this could
> have been overlooked -- but on the outside chance, I mention that it used
> to be common to cover the base of a flourescent light table with aluminum
> foil to supposedly increase the light by "reflection" -- in fact one of
> the manuals (either Nadeau or Palladio) suggested that, and Phil Davis in
> his article in Photo Techniques said he had done so (while also
> "explaining" that gum is by nature "soft focus"). I, too, had lined with
> foil at the outset, but one day made a comparison with the NuArc, which I
> was using at the time.
>
> Ooops !! (for all media).
>
> I removed the foil, which aside from whatever other qualities, was very
> crinkly -- subsequent prints were comparable to the Nu Arc, except gum
> prints probably less contrasty.
>
> Judy
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