Re: new process

> I didn't record how it was actually done (except for the
> page no. for future reference) but thought that if Photo Techniques
magazine
> could run a Green Tea film development process, raspberry syrup wasn't too
> far behind.

Incidentally, raspberry (dye) seems to have made a come-back, since it may
be an
interesting dye for spectral sensitization of solar cells...

Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@uslink.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:08 AM
Subject: new process

> Hi all,
> Summer is going out with a bang, as it usually does. I have barely
had
> time to breathe, but I managed to sneak in another foray into the Univ of
> Minn's rare book collections. I came across two processes, one a while
> ago--the morphine process--which I thought was weird enough, but this week
I
> came across the raspberry syrup process. It was in the Photographic
Journal
> from the 1850's. I didn't record how it was actually done (except for the
> page no. for future reference) but thought that if Photo Techniques
magazine
> could run a Green Tea film development process, raspberry syrup wasn't too
> far behind.
> Heck, we could do our prints and eat them, too.
> Good night,
> Chris
> PS I also found that it was a **woman** who added the first non-carbon
> black, non powdered pigment to the gum process in England :) You go
> girl...(I mean, you went, girl)
>
>
Received on Fri Aug 27 02:57:15 2004