Re: Toners and Leica Glow

[Oddmund Garvik <garvik@i-t.fr>]

Jim Brick wrote...

>This was all meant in jest... I do, however, know about
>"uranium toner/intensifier." My colleagues and I gave-up playing with it
>many many years ago. The results did not warrant the effort...This
>certainly is not the first time uranium toner and photographers glow has
>been "chuckled" about.

Fine, but why didn't you write it at once. I still think your kind of
comments is a sign of weakness. In French we also call it "mauvaise foi". I
have a great sense of humour, but I don't find your comments funny at all!
There might be a culture gap between us.

You and your colleagues can do what you want. I think it is an interesting
process, worth the effort. I have never drunk it...and I always use it with
precautions, of course. Why would anybody do toning in the darkroom BTW? 

The photographers "glow" from URANYL NITRATE is nothing compared to the
"glow" everybody gets from nuclear waste being spilled every day by the US,
Russia, China, France and other nuclear nations. I am more upset about that
problem. And I don't "chuckle" about it!

Oddmund