On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 Grafist@aol.com wrote:
> It has occured to me that Jose Ortiz Echague was reported to have used paper
> negs throughout his career to produce his vaste number of prints in Direct
> Carbon. I dont suppose he ever used a step wedge. Just trial and error with him,
> but I suspect that someone, somewhere has heard of using this very useful
> tool with balancing their prints from paper negatives.
John, I would assume he used some kind of actinometer... All the old books
tell you how to make your own, and many of the formulas say "watch til
such and such a step" on the actinometer.
There are a lot of old books and articles on paper negatives, but rest
assured they do not tell you how to expose, or anything useful
technically, mostly they're telling you how to get those special effects
Thorek got -- to make authentic mid-century kitch.
J.
Received on Thu Mar 25 21:48:25 2004
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