Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/11

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Subject: [Leica] french lady printing
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:32:57 -0800
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My goal now is to clean the house and garage well enough to have a
darkroom setup like that. Oh man, she's just an artist!!! I haven't
bookmarked a page in ages since google is only a few words of typing
away, but that page is on my bookmark.

I just got a "print dryer" in the hope to get that sheen. I suppose it
may be pointing to the prints not completely have the fixer washed off
or some other defects with my techniques, but I tried a couple times,
and there are "unsheened" ovals :-( The shine is really nice. Anyone
has any ideas? Mark Rabiner?

The instructions mention" ferrotype polish" but googling shows that it
may not be practical to do anymore?

*back to weighing down the prints for the moment*


On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Sue Pearce <bs.pearce at cox.net> wrote:
> WOW! Having spent some time as a printer, I am in love. She makes 
> ferrotyped
> prints in this century? That's the thing that I miss most when I print B&W
> in my own darkroom. There's nothing like a glossy fibre print!
>
> And, having worked in several commercial darkrooms, I appreciate the
> slightly seedy nature of her darkroom.
>
> She does nothing that we couldn't, given ten or so years of daily
> experience.
>


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