Re: affect & effect of pigment

Thanks Judy.

Best Wishes,
Mark Nelson
Precision Digital Negatives--The Book
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In a message dated 5/5/06 11:22:43 AM, jseigel@panix.com writes:

>
> On Thu, 4 May 2006, Ender100@aol.com wrote:
>
> > The clarification I was actually looking for, however, was in the other
> post
> > you made and I responded to that.   It had to do with the affect of
> pigment
> > load on contrast.
>
> The affect of pigment load on contrast is quite happy, pigment is glad to
> have a job and do it. The *effect* of pigment load on contrast is,
> generally speaking (IME) as Katharine says and, as shown in Post-Factory
> #2, first printed October, 1998, page 46.
>
> The item, "How to Cheat at Gum," also mentions another instance in which
> Paul Anderson was wrong...  effect of his chronic "seems logical disease."
> He explained (faithfully cut & pasted ever since) that the more pigment in
> a gum emulsion the more different tones you could get.
>
> However, in areas where Anderson actually DID a process, rather than
> theorize, he was fine. He wasn't the first, but very clear and correct, on
> the use of 3 coats of different exposures and density to achieve a
> complete tonality... explained in his Techniques of Pictorial Photography
> (title from memory, sorry), and a useful general gum printing practice
> before and since.
>
> Judy
>
Received on 05/05/06-11:58:44 AM Z