From: Robert W. Schramm (schrammrus@hotmail.com)
Date: 02/08/02-04:22:52 PM Z
Sandy et al,
About a year or so ago I tested all the known formulas for VDB to see for
myself which was best and during the process tried that business of adding
pot. di. to the wash water. It didn't work for me either but I have seen it
reported many times prior to C. James' book.
Bob Schramm
>From: Sandy King <sanking@clemson.edu>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Book by Christopher James
>Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 15:58:28 -0500
>
>OK, I tested the contrast control method for vandyke described by
>Christopher James on p. 143 of The Book of Alternative Photographic
>Processes (or I would call it the book of *some* alternative
>photographic processes and lots of relatively unsharp images made
>with a plastic camera). Basically this calls for adding a few drops
>of a 10% solution of potassium dichromate to the first
>wash/development stage of vandyke.
>
>The method did not work at all for me. Nada. At the amount suggested
>by James there was no change at all in contrast of the step tablets.
>With a gross increase in the amount of dichromate per liter of water
>the step tablets got even flatter.
>
>So, does this method work and I am just doing something wrong, or is
>James just wrong?
>
>
>Sandy King
>
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