RE: Gum Curves, new topic please????

Mike,

You've outed me here. I always make 14 different exposures even when
shooting 8x10 and I carry 8 camera bodies not 7. Perhaps owning a cool wiz
bang digital camera with an 8 to 600 mm zoom lens could solve the problem.

Sizing? I don't need no stinking sizing!

Don
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Healy [mailto:emjayhealy@earthlink.net]
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 1:28 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject: RE: Gum Curves, new topic please????

Sheesh, Don, you've already forgotten Occam?!

Lookit: every time you shoot an image, you just shoot one perfect neg for
cyanotype,
another for your albumen, another for your gum, another for your VDB. Maybe
one each
for platinum and bromoil, too, just in case you might end up doing one of
those in 2009,
you just never know.

If you're doing 35mm, never fear: simply own seven different bodies, and
carry all of
them with you, and USE every one of them every time you shoot an image. A
different
roll for each potential process. Maybe own seven 24mm lenses, too, if
switching the one
from camera to camera sounds tedious. Because, really, the idea is to keep
it simple.

The more you think about it, the more obvious it becomes: curves are kind of
like
wasting your time sizing the paper.

Mike

On 30 Apr 2006 at 12:38, Don Bryant wrote:

Date sent: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:38:53 -0400
From: Don Bryant <dstevenbryant@mindspring.com>
Subject: RE: Gum Curves, new topic please????
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Send reply to: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca

> Terry,
>
> >  The
> need for a curve ..... goes without
> saying
> >
>
> >
> Worrying about curves is an unnecessary complication.
> >
>
> Okay Terry, I'll bite. Please tell us how you do it. That is, how do
> you make digital negatives without an adjustment curve?
>
> Don Bryant
>
>
>
Received on Mon May 1 00:13:26 2006