Re: Tricolor Gum Bichromate materials - query

Virginia Boehm (gini@ix.netcom.com)
Sun, 26 Feb 1995 16:25:48 -0800

I really appreciate your ideas on this. But Panalure, or any other
paper, would yield paper negatives that really don't give much detail.
This is particularly the case since printing on watercolor paper itself
costs considerable detail because of the tooth of the paper. For
negataive, I really have to use film.

After a year and a half of efforts,I'm getting pretty good color matches
(to the slides I start with) with what I'm doing but nearly always, the
pseudo "red"filtered negative has to have density either added or
subtracted from some area, and registration errors are numerous.

I work from slides and make negatives to print from using a dichrotic
enlarger head - max filtration. There is some color bleed (especially
if the slide is contrasty) and sometimes masking is necessary.

I keep thinking there must be a better way, but maybe there is not.

Gini