RE: Lumin prints tests

Hmmm, I would be quite surprised if waiting a week would make much of a
difference.

I tried a sheet of Luminos this morning and after fixing and toning with
selenium, I ended up with something that looks almost exactly as if I had
exposed in the darkroom and used Dektol. <g>

Cheers -

george

--- "Baird, Darryl" <dbaird@umflint.edu> wrote:

> George,
>
> all those test prints are on Ilford Warm Tone FB, straight out of the
> plastic bag
>
> FWIW, I'm waiting for about a week to fix them (top row), then see if
> there is any improvement in the rentention of the beautiful colors
>
> Darryl Baird
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George L Smyth [mailto:glsmyth@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sun 9/4/2005 10:12 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Lumin prints tests
>
> I played around with the some today. The results I got were not as
> even as I
> would have thought. I tried Ilford MGIV, Ilford Warm Tone, and two
> sheets of
> Brovira. I placed decayed leaved on reach and placed within frames.
> I
> expected the different papers to give me varied results, but the two
> sheets of
> Brovira came out differently, which I thought was odd. I got some
> nice
> coloration with one of them (though not nearly to the extent as the
> images in
> the link provided, which makes me wonder if they were treated with
> S2/S30 -
> unfortunately, most of the color went away with fixing and toning) but
> nothing
> with the other. Exposure time was about six or seven hours, with some
> of the
> time not being in direct sunlight.
>
> Alas, like one other poster I, too, tossed several hundred sheets of
> expired
> paper about nine months ago in my attempt to reduce clutter. Perhaps
> eBay will
> be helpful inthat regard. I will try again tomorrow with some other
> ideas and
> perhaps my results will be a little more interesting.
>
> Cheers -
>
> george
>

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Received on Mon Sep 5 11:59:19 2005