Re: Baldus/ was : GUM - STARCH ???

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ARTHURWG@aol.com
Date: 11/23/02-06:27:08 PM Z


<PRE>I note that Edouard Baldus (1818-1882) sized his calotype negatives in
gelatin for landscapes and starch for portraits, the later because it did not
allow the chemicals to sink as deeply into the paper as the former, making
for for faster exposures. Arthur


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