Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Most historical or "alternate" printing processes have one thing in common. You cant use an enlarger with them; you have to contact print. Nowadays it doesn't not mean so much you need to be lugging a view camera around shooting sheet film. Nowadays you play with your image in Photoshop or Lightroom and just third party output to film instead of paper substrate. Any size you want. Then you pick up your negative or positive film made to size and have fun in your backyard on a sunny day printing it; or using a bank of fluorescents. When they saw this digital stuff coming out they said " be great for the commercial guys not much good for the Arty people" And of course the opposite is again the case. The art crowd really clean up with digital technology. People can print platinum or what have you from grab shots. Its always what you don't think. mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Ken Carney <kcarney1@cox.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:50:53 -0500 > To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: OT was RE: [Leica] Getting into printing.. need advice? > > Sorry about that. Pt/pd = platinum/palladium printing. Some, myself > included, think it is the most beautiful of all printing processes. It is > expensive, fussy, and requires a large negative. It is also fairly toxic, > not as much as daguerreotype (mercury fumes, anyone?), but up there. If > Mark is eating pt/pd on his waffles, the pleasure will likely be > short-lived. Essentially, you pour the emulsion onto paper and then smooth > it out with a haku brush or a glass rod. Therein lies the greatest health > hazard. The only container suitable for pouring the emulsion is a shot > glass. In the safelight, the emulsion looks amazingly like Scotch. So > there is the chance of a lapse in attention and a conditioned reflex! > > FYI here are two links for master pt/pd printers: >