Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Scan or photograph with a digital camera the final print after you make a print with the plate. That's probably more accurate than a scan of the plate would be with an old process like that anyway. Can't wait to see it :) -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-486-2581 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 11/7/10 3:28 PM, "Richard Man" <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote: > Btw, it's Ben Nixon, I may have mistyped last night. The fixer is regular > fixer. There's a solution with cadmium, but iforgot which one. We 're > wearing gloves of course. He did the actual inserting the plate in the > holder and pull it out and put in the developer as you have to do them in > the dark. He converted his trunk as a portable darkroom for that. Overall, > it's pretty easy once you have the system setup. > > He says the plate is hard to scan, I'll let you folks know next week. I > sold > all my enlarger paper (oops) and move to contact paper but will figure > something out > > Thanks > On Nov 7, 2010 2:33 AM, "Tarek Charara" <tcharara at mac.com> wrote: >> Ahhh, wow! that's something I put on my "things I want to do list"! i have > a 8x10 camera from the early 20th century with a carl Zeiss lens that I > want > to use for just that? Was it "easy" to do? Did you you use regular fixer or > potassium cyanide?? >> >> I'd love to see the results you obtained! >> >> All the best, >> >> Tarek >> >> Le 7 nov. 2010 ? 09:25, Richard Man a ?crit : >> >>> In a weekend long workshop and I attended a session with Ben Nelson on > his >>> wet plate collidian process. Afterward, he made a group portrait with us. > A >>> couple of us stayed behind after that and he asked if we wanted to try > it. >>> >>> But of COURSE :-) Way cool! >>> >>> -- >>> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> >>> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> >>> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> >>> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > previous >>> replies in your msgs. ] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information