Luminos Photo Corp.
P.O. Box 158
Yonkers, NY 10705
(914) 965-4800
Claude Seymour
On Sun, 22 May 1994, NADO000 wrote:
> >In Luis Nadeau's HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF CARBON PROCESSES, in the chapter on
> >Carbo prints, he mentions that "The process can be simplified by developing the
> ^^^^^^
>
> carBRO, not carbo
>
> >pigment right on the bromide, thus avoiding the work of transfer." (p.171)
> >
> >I am interested in trying this procedure. Can anyone tell me more about it?
>
> He says it's pretty straigthforward. At the end of the bleaching time,
> instead of stripping the pigment off the bromide, you simply put the
> "sandwich (the whole thing: bromide with pigment tissue on top of it)
> into the hot water (40C or so) after a minute or so, starting at a
> corner, peel the backing of the tissue *gently* and discard it. If all
> went well your image will start to develop at this point. The rest of
> the procedure is described on p. 172.
>
> You should keep in mind that people have not had much luck in recent
> years with the carbro process, because of the unavailability of decent
> bromide papers. Nadeau much prefers carbon transfer to carbro for this
> reason.
>
>
> Luis Nadeau
> Box 7, Site 4, RR4, Fredericton, NB
> CANADA E3B 4X5
> FAX: (506)450-2718; Hamcall: VE9LN
> >
> >Thank you,
> >
> >Kenton Hyatt
> >HYATTK@axe.humboldt.edu