From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 04/29/02-08:46:27 PM Z
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Sandy King wrote:
> I really wonder if the glass rod is the optimum way to coat any of
> the alternative processes? With every process I have tried brush
> coating has given me more consistent and reliable results than rod
> coating, though it uses a bit more chemistry. I am sure that this
> waste is an important consideration for those doing platinum Pt/Pd
> printing. However, as the size of the print gets larger there is less
> waste with the brush than with small prints, and this is true even
Sandy, I'm delighted you say that. I got the feeling that REAL alt
photographers were supposed to do glass rod. Of course I wasn't going
to do it for gum, but didn't take to it for anything else either....
So another myth bites the dust?
(In school they made us feel like sissies if we didn't develop 35 mm on
the stainless steel reel... If the salesman at Olden hadn't come up with
that plastic wiggle reel I wasn't going to be a photographer... What was
his name? Joel somebody?)
best,
Judy
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