From: Christina Z. Anderson (zphoto@montana.net)
Date: 06/16/03-05:24:15 PM Z
Well, there's another myth from my past that bites the dust...
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Katharine Thayer" <kthayer@pacifier.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: a newbie's first post: gum, temperaprint,oil
printing,sizing,and computer negatives
> Hi Chris,
> My studio has floor to ceiling north-facing windows and I coat and dry
> the gum emulsion right by the windows, or under a regular 60-watt bulb
> if the day is too dim to work by daylight, with no ill effect whatever.
> There have only been a couple of days in three years that I've felt
> there was so much light coming through that I needed to lower the
> blinds. There is a west-facing window through which the sun shines
> directly onto the coating table in late afternoon during the summer;
> unfortunately that window doesn't have a blind. To tell a story on
> myself: one day I was working on autopilot and coated a print with the
> sun shining right on the coating table, so into what I was doing that I
> didn't notice that the sun was there. After I printed and developed the
> picture, I was baffled by an odd shape on my print, until it finally
> dawned on me that it was the shadow of the windowframe as it fell on the
> coated paper. (Duh!) It was a big, important print, so I've never made
> that mistake again.
> kt
>
> Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> >
> > Good to know, Jack. A question for you or other gum printers/alt
printers:
> > I am setting up a temp darkroom here in MN where I will be for a month.
> > After hearing that, was it you or Keith who actually coated paper
outside in
> > the garage and let it dry?? Like in full on light?? I was wondering if
I
> > could really coat and dry the paper in room light or should I cover the
> > windows? For gum and pt/pd, that is, oh and cyano. I have always done
all
> > under a bug light. See, if I cover the windows, not much air will get
thru
> > and it is quite hot in there. No air conditioning of course. I have
found
> > out from the list that a bug light is really unnecessary, but I'm
wondering
> > if even incandescent is really unnecessary, too...also remembering Laura
> > Gilpin used to coat her platinums in her sunny livingroom.
> > Chris
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jack Brubaker" <jack@jackbrubaker.com>
> > To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:19 PM
> > Subject: Re: a newbie's first post: gum, temperaprint, oil
> > printing,sizing,and computer negatives
> >
> > >
> > > "Christina Z. Anderson" wrote
> > > I only worried about it being dry enough to not wreck the neg,
> > > > but with diginegs it probably wouldn't be the end of the world to
wreck
> > a
> > > > neg that costs 40 cents.
> > >
> > > Chris,
> > >
> > > Working in southern Indiana I have some great humidity to deal with.
The
> > > concrete slab of the room I work in (with outside door hanging open to
the
> > > woods outside) being cooler than the air condences water and gets
swampy
> > in
> > > the summer. I hang my gumed paper to dry in the adjoining utility room
> > where
> > > the furnace and waterheater are located. In summer the waterheater
(gas)
> > > drys that area enough that paper is ready almost as fast as I can
organize
> > > the negs. etc. for printing.
> > >
> > > Jack
> > >
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