From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 10/08/03-10:17:10 PM Z
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Sandy King wrote:
> > Did you mean to say that the new Gum Bichromate plugin is like gum in
> that it can't resolve fine detail either?
Actually, Sandy you are confused here...
Robert Demachy, making a sharp distinction between "softness" in a print
and "detail", points out that gum can get all detail in the negative but
the character of the print is "softer" than SG. (The reason could be the
dot gain in gum, which thickens it up.)
Tho of course that was exactly the charm of gum for the period -- Demachy
et al HATED all that sharp literal stuff... (Too bad about carbon being so
sharp -- have you tried fuzzing up the negative?)
J.
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