From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 04/28/03-04:59:30 PM Z
Sandy,
Last time I ordered I think I got 25 grams of Pd salt and 10 of Pt (because
you mix them at different strengths that's more like a 5 to 1 ratio of final
solutions) which has lasted me a long time. I'm sure the price was
significantly lower than buying pre-mixed 25ml bottles. My cost estimate is
a little higher than Clay and Kerik because I figured for a 20% platinum
print, and it looks like I'm using a bit more solution per square inch on my
current favorites (Stonehenge and Lenox) than the papers they mention. My
other favorite, Masa, would use nearly 20% less, and I've plenty of
successful 12x20's on it, but I'd hesitate, to say the least, to try this
Japanese tissue at 20x24.---Carl
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> From: Sandy King <sanking@CLEMSON.EDU>
> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:29:50 -0400
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Just Kallitype Now, was Re: Platinum Heresy, was Re: Satista
>
> Hi Clay, Carl, Kerik,
>
> Thanks very much for the cost information. Actually the cost to make
> a Pt/Pd of that size it is quite a bit less than I would have thought
> so I still have my breath!! By what you say price would appear to
> range from about $8-14. I will have to quite honestly say that is
> less than half of what I would have expected.
>
> Cost to do the same size for the platinum or palladium coated
> kallitype, and this is based on the price of the B&S Platinum
> Solution #3 or Palladium Solution #3, purchased in the 25ml bottles,
> which are same price to me, would be about $3.50, not counting the
> cost of the silver nitrate and ferric oxalate, which are minimal.
> That is less than half of the lowest real Pt/Pd figure but still the
> difference is not as much as I thought. Is some of the difference
> due to the fact that you fellows are buying the palladum and platinum
> in larger quantities? I see that there is a real price advantage to
> buying the stuff in larger quantities and I am assuming that you
> probably buy it that way?
>
> Sandy
>
>
>
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