Re: yes and no

Ryuji et all,

thanks for your excellent input Ryuji. I also don't understand why even the
cross-linking of gum and gelatin "isn't well understood" as of yet. The
quoted words are the exact same words I've seen in papers and thesis
floatting around on the net.

I'm not a qualified chemist (not even close), but I wonder if a well guided
bunch of amateur (with time to spare) could at least make some minimal
progress in the understanding of what't happening with this gum at least on
a practical level?

I'd be willing to give quite a bit of time for this and a few bucks. (as
little of this as possible of course) The most important thing for me is
that I wouldn't want to be guided (or have the feeling of being guided) by
someone as blind as me in these matter which would not be the case with you.

Regards
Yves

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs@silvergrain.org>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: yes and no

> I also don't have time to follow every thread but I save everything
> and they are indexed for searching, so that when I need to search for
> past postings by myself or others, it'll take split seconds. (Research
> is about re-searching what's already discussed and not re-arguing the
> same, over and over.)
>
> Most of the issues discussed here are not that difficult in hands of
> real chemists. I don't understand why organizations like center for
> photographic history and technology doesn't take initiaitve on
> organizing research at a decent institution with serious photography
> program AND real science and engineering departments. Real research is
> very expensive (and I wouldn't do it for anything outside of my
> personal iterests) but there gotta be ways to do better amateur
> research if the effort is somehow organized.
>
> From: Eric Neilsen <e.neilsen@worldnet.att.net>
> Subject: RE: yes and no
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:12:51 -0600
>
> > I haven't had time to read a word of it but I just keep putting the
whole
> > darn thread into the GUM folder for later reading or deleting. There is
a
> > whole 'nother issue on other forums about ink, and I'm still working on
a
> > 2006 calendar. Darn : )
Received on Tue Jan 31 09:18:09 2006