Re: Dry Plate Speed & Shelflife

> I am not neglecting the history. I am deliberately preferring
> post-1880 way of emulsion making.

So do I. That's why I posted that link to that method that includes
not-so-outdated reduction sensitization. But let's leave it there.

Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs@AgX.st>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: Dry Plate Speed & Shelflife

> From: MARTINM <martinm@SoftHome.net>
> Subject: Re: Dry Plate Speed & Shelflife
> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 11:54:17 +0100
>
> > Ryuji, frankly, I am absolutely not keen on competing with your
> > semi-professional (non reduction sensitized) silver halide
> > emulsion. I am only interested in ultra-fine emulsions. [...]
>
> As far as I know, this thread was about the speed and other characters
> of color blind dry plate emulsions from early years of silver-gelatin
> process, of course for pictorial photography applications. It
> wasn't about holography or about how to make emulsions. In this
> context you brought up one method to make holography plate and
> adovocated its application for pictorial photography. Speed of ASA 50
> was mentioned. I simply maintained that these are overselling stuff.
>
> > I assumed, given the long tradition of this kind of SH emulsion
> > making ("bathing method") it fit well with the philosophy of
> > alt.photography.
>
> That should have read "a long tradition of being abandoned as a way to
> prepare pictorial quality emulsions."
>
> > I guessed it would be silly to neglect more than one and a half
> > century of experience made by people around the world (from Talbot,
> > Poitevin, Liesegang till now) with different kinds of bathing
> > methods.
>
> I am not neglecting the history. I am deliberately preferring
> post-1880 way of emulsion making.
>
> --
> Ryuji Suzuki
> "Well, believing is all right, just don't let the wrong people know
> what it's all about." (Bob Dylan, Need a Woman, 1982)
Received on Mon Mar 7 04:18:35 2005