[Leica] Retouching enlargements experience?

[Lluis Ripoll]

Thank you Bob! I hope that at my actual age (75) I will not see of the dots has shrunk over the years…. :-) 

Cheers
Lluis


> El 18 febr 2019, a les 19:17, Robert Baron via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va escriure:
> 
> A few years back the OKCLUG (Ken Carney and I) went to a local exhibit that
> included a number of prints of Arnold Newman's portraits of celebrities.
> They had been clearly retouched with pencils and the pencil dots had shrunk
> over the years.
> 
> I used to do that too but I have no idea where my old prints are.  They are
> definitely not in museums.
> 
> --Bob
> 
> ===On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 10:13 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> wrote:
> 
>> I have successfully retouched thousands of 16x20s and 11x14s with
>> pencils. Little dots. Nobody can see the retouching without a magnifying
>> glass. It is a very useful optical illusion. I always printed on
>> Polycontrast G, but I suspect pencils would also work with an E or X
>> finish.
>> 
>> On 2019-02-17 19:57, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>> I can recall watching my wife's parents do retouching of 5 x 7 studio
>>> portraits with very sharp pencils, filling flaws by placing very sharp
>>> dots on the emulsion side.  It is an art that must be learned by
>>> experience.  I'm not sure this could ever be done with 35mm.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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