RE: Silver Nitrate in Albumen Printing... Concentration Question

Hi Adam,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam. Waterson [mailto:artistboi@speakeasy.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 11:42 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Silver Nitrate in Albumen Printing... Concentration Question
>
>
> Ey y'all
>
> I'm working with Albumen printing and am coming across a bit of a
> difficulty with my sensitizing material. I was wondering if
> any of you
> had a good "recipe" for the amount of Silver Nitrate to
> Water. I know
> there is a threshold at which too much Silver Nitrate makes the print
> weaker, not stronger. Was just wondering anyone had a really good
> ...

I don't know much about albumen and/or salted paper, but aren't these
processes similar in the aspect of silver nitrate to salt proportion?
AFAIK the "right" proportion is 6 parts of silver nitrate for 1 parts of
salt... So, if you want to sensitize using 12% silver nitrate -> your
albumin solution should contain 2% salt, to use 15% silver nitrate ->
2,5% salt and so on...

Regards,
Loris.
Received on Mon Feb 9 00:54:53 2004