From: Ed Buffaloe (EdBuffaloe@UnblinkingEye.Com)
Date: 09/22/02-04:56:45 AM Z
I have republished an article by Bob Herbst entitled "The Effects of Pyro
Stain in Platinum Printing" that clearly demonstrates a longer printable
scale with pyro negatives for both platinum and silver.
http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/Pyro/pyro.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Buck" <jeffbuck@swcp.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 10:30 PM
Subject: Pyro Schmyro
> I tried something like this inquiry a month or so ago and got no
> response. Perhaps on this occasion some of the more indulgent members of
> the list are checking their email:
>
> Let's say that I don't give a flying flip (note the carefully-crafted
> euphemisms, Gordon) how my negatives would work for silver printing
(hence,
> I don't care whether my negatives will work both for silver and
> pt/pd)..... In that case, what is the justification for bothering with
> pyro? Assume as well that I reject the Great Separation in the High
Values
> justification (Dick Arentz seems to reject it; surely I know no better
than
> he) and that, while I appreciate the economy of pyro, I doubt that the
> economy alone offsets the disadvantages of pyro. So, there then -- Why
use
> pyro?
>
> Jeff Buckels
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