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Subject: [OM] Re: Platinum/Palladium, was Film
From: "Earl Dunbar" <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:07:17 -0400
Wayne:

This looks like an excellent resource.  I have a lot to learn, but I have 
bookmarked it for further study.  Thanks!

Earl

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On 8/31/2004 at 5:53 AM Wayne S wrote:

>You can make a digital negative using Pictorico OHP Transparency film
>using an inkjet printer. See: http://www.danburkholder.com/ and his book
>"Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing"? The book describes a way
>to
>make a "spectral density" negative, which requires less ink and does
>not puddle up like it would if you tried to create a physical density
>negative.
>He developed the technique specifically for alternative process contact 
>printing. The advantage is that you can also edit and adjust curves in
>PS before printing.
>
>Wayne
>
>At 10:07 PM 8/30/2004, you wrote:
>>....
>>THAT is a pity.  It is the LF b&w that I'm primarily worried about.  I am
>interested in resuming making silver prints from LF, plus experimenting
>with platinum and palladium.  I realize that for the latter it will be
>contact printing.  Since I only have 4x5 though and have no real desire
>(at least at this point) to go to 8x10 (though the new Cooke Triple
>Convertible XVa makes a good case for going 8x10!), does anyone have any
>experience making very high quality 8x10 (or larger) internegs?  Given
>that platinum paper requires such long exposure times as to make
>traditional enlarger prints impractical, would there be any economically
>feasible way of using a high intensity light source for a 4x5 enlarger,
>e.g. a pulsed/flash source?  
>>
>>Earl
>
>
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