From: Eric Neilsen (e.neilsen@worldnet.att.net)
Date: 04/28/03-05:21:58 PM Z
Sandy, Much of the cost estimates that I see are based upon metals
salts and some components. Sure, the more you by the better the price.
Where you buy is also a consideration, for the paper, brushes, tape,...
The bottom line is " do you love what you do"... The cost is not so
much or a real part of why most of us are doing the things we do.
Right?
My last purchases were Pt @ 13.00/gram, Pd @ 10.50/g, I make my own
developer, and ferric which cuts cost a bunch. A purchase of 140.00
dollars worth of supplies to make ferric oxalate, produced nearly 2.7
liters, and I sold some of that so it truly was nearly free. I love
what I do... it it not so expensive as to stop me from doing it. Heck,
coated silver paper is almost 2.00 a sheet.
Have fun and love what you do.
Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street
Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
http://e.neilsen.home.att.net
http://ericneilsenphotography.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Weese [mailto:cweese@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 6:00 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Just Kallitype Now, was Re: Platinum Heresy, was Re:
Satista
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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