Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Archivalness? I've got 30 year old prints made when I didn't know my ass from a hole in the ground about photography, and they look today just as they did when they were first printed (and I certainly didn't selenium tone them; I never heard of it back then). People take this "archival" thing way too seriously. It just isn't that difficult to wash a photograph. I suspect that it is just a marketing ploy used to justify higher prices for "fine art" prints, similar to calling them "silver-gelatin" rather than what they really are. Dan C. At 05:39 PM 12-04-00 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >Except they are saying now that you don't get Archivalness with 1:9. >But if you've only toned a few prints you can pour it into a bottle and reuse it again. >This I'm learning from Richard Knoppow's rec.photo.darkroom. >It's a newsgroup and I have to remind myself to go over there. >It's the only newsgroup I look and post to. >Mark Rabiner