Re: Direct Carbon Business Wise

This is very interesting stuff..... Thanks,
jc
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From: <Grafist@aol.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 4:38 AM
Subject: Re: Direct Carbon Business Wise

> In a message dated 31/07/05 16:52:45 GMT Daylight Time,
> achakali@wideopenwest.com writes:
>
> > John,
> >
> > I will attempt to answer your questions. Please feel free to contact
me
> > off-line if I missed the mark.
> ................................................
> Art, Thank you so much for spending the time to discuss some of the Direct
> Carbon and Fresson issues. Over the past ten years, or so, there have been
many
> postings on this list regarding the historical, technical and aesthetic
> aspects. I think it must be one of the most long standing subjects
together with
> GUM, of course. Judy's Post Factory No 9 issue on Fresson has an
historic value
> which would be difficult to surpass in its comprehensiveness. But there
> surely must be more ongoing work being done by students of photographic
printing
> which will widen the picture even more over the coming years whether or
not
> there is a digital link. I recently heard about something called ''digital
> bromoil'' and thought it must be a joke. It was bromoil technique
simulated by
> software. Digital Fresson? Why not?
> I will contact you ''off list'' if the subject becomes
> private or involved with personal financial business matters, but as
regards
> dialogue concerning processing I am sure many readers would be interested
to learn
> more about the social connections we have made during our search for
> information and the leads which have helped us in our research.
> Bill Foster knew and had met Echague way back but
inspite
> of their close relationship apparently never acquired any cutting edge
> infomation from him on processing. Echague was extremely wealthy and
successful with
> many publications of his images of Spanish life origionally made using the
> Fresson process.
> However, Echague did publish an outline of his working
> methods using Fresson paper and sawdust to develop and this has been very
useful
> to me in my experimenting with Direct Carbon techniques. I can provide a
> brief resume if anyone would be interested through a future posting
depending on
> the reaction of list members to this offer.
> Business wise the way ahead is not clear. As you
say,
> much money and effort is needed to make the whole thing work viably and
> commercially. Personally, I am not in a position to give away free the
results of
> thousands of hours of painstaking testing only to hear further down the
road that
> someone is marketing a product based on my research. This is why I do not
> wish to patent my findings which would make the critical information
available
> to public investigation.
> What I discovered in the formulation of the
process
> was totally new in concept to anything which I had read in publications of
> formulae. In fact, as with Artigue, it was an accident while experimenting
with
> known recipes which gave the clue to further work which gave me the final
method.
> Again, Judy's article in PF No. 9 contains most
of
> what I am refering to. I would suggest to anyone who seriously wants to
devote
> several hundred hours to Direct Carbon research, to obtain a copy.
Thanks
> again, Judy !
> The quest goes on.
> Cheers John- photographist
>
>
>
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Received on Fri Aug 5 12:22:06 2005