Re: searching for the elusive cyanotype rex

Charles, you could e-mail Terry King who developed the rex processes,
http://www.hands-on-pictures.com/html/rexhow.html

Christmas greetings

John

www.johnbrewerphotography.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "ryberg" <cryberg@comcast.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 11:16 PM
Subject: searching for the elusive cyanotype rex

> Last October someone posted a summary of an article in a British
> magazine named AG. The summary offered enough information to make me
> interested but not enough to try it so I bought the magazine. The article
> by Michael Maunder says that a sheet of paper coated only with a solution
> of
> ferric ammonium citrate can be much faster than the traditional cyanotype
> mixture of FAC and potassium ferricyanide. To take advantage of this
> speed
> one developes by brushing on a solution of potassium ferrOcyanide--NOT the
> usual ferric salt.
> I finally located some of the fairly obscure ferrous salt and tried.
> Several times. I emailed Mr. Maunder who could not find anything wrong
> with
> the process as I described what I did. He suggested that I might be using
> a
> better quality of paper and that I should try plain old copy paper, which
> I
> did. No luck. I could give details of what Maunder says to do but I
> hesitate to offer the list information which I can't make work.
> Has anyone ever read anything about this process? Is it related to the
> much praised but NEVER described cyanotype rex I suspect that is a
> non-existant beast.
> Charles Portland Or
>
Received on Mon Dec 12 06:17:15 2005