RE: A newcomer into the alt. process world...

About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

From: Ian Greant (ian@51north.com)
Date: 07/03/03-04:32:02 AM Z


Hello again Loris,

so many questions! Excellent!

>That's good news... I think I'm going to try to find something more
>special (made by horse hair which does not contain any metal) but it is
>good to know that I can use cheap house paint brushes - do these
>polyester brushes hold enough sensitizer?

I've found just about any brush works. My favorite brush is an old mostly
worn out house paint brush that is very coarse and leaves great (IMO) brush
marks

> > Paper: I suggest something rather inexpensive for your first tests.
>
>That's a very rationalist suggestion. That paper I had mentioned costs ~
>US$ 1.4 per sheet. One sheet is enough for ~ eight 8x10" prints; making
>US$ 0.175 per print - seems very reasonable... What do you think?

That's pretty cheap. :)

I noticed you had some questions on digital negs.

I currently print my negs on Epson transparency material using Dan
Burkholder's Spectral negative method.
I've found it compares quite well with prints made from my 4x5 film negs,
smearing wasn't a problems once I printed on the right side of the media
and I've found them reasonably durable.

Once I run out I plan to try Pictorio but still with my stock color Epson
inks.

Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Ian


About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : 08/07/03-03:34:49 PM Z CST