From: Dave Rose (cactuscowboy@bresnan.net)
Date: 07/22/03-09:51:07 PM Z
What exactly is the "dry dichromate technique"? Why would this be
advantageous?
Is Stuart Melvin a member of this list? If so, please elaborate on your
process.
I find this "top secret, wait and see at APIS" hype really annoying. It's
very frustrating to read second hand reports heaping praise upon this guy's
(Melvin) work with no details, no published reports, etc.... Does this guy
really exist? Why the silence? If I, an overworked car salesman in rural
Wyoming with precious little spare time, can post countless contributions to
the alt-photo list, why can't this so-called gum guru write a single word?
>From what I've read of Stuart Melvin (View Camera magazine a few years ago)
he hasn't done anything that hasn't been done a hundred years ago. So
what's new? Let's hear it!
I regret not attending APIS. I would have loved to have been there, but I
had to work.
Best regards,
Dave in Big Wonderful Wyoming
> Also just for clarity's sake, Stuart doesn't claim to have invented the
> dry dichromate technique. It was also in some of the old literature,
> from what he (Stuart) says. None of the things he is doing is new, in
> and of itself, but I believe, (and I'm putting words in his mouth) that
> he just wanted to show us his combination of procedures that he has
> found to be pretty bomb-proof.( if such a state of grace exists in gum!)
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