Re: Toners and Leica Glow

[Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>]

At 04:17 PM 4/16/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Oddmund wrote
>
>>Contax TVS with a 28-56mm Vario-Sonnar. If I need big prints (50x60 cm 
>and
>>up), I'll use a Rolleiflex 3.5 Planar/Tessar with a Sunpak Autopro 
>120J-DX
>>open bulb flash. Otherwise, there are lots of good cameras: Contax T2,
>>Olympus mju-2, Nikon FM, why not a Rollei 35, a Leica-M with a 35mm or 
>a
>>50mm Summicron, or one of those old rangefinders from the 1970s, like 
>the
>>Canon QL17 and the Olympus RD. 
>>imperfections.
>
>>Sometimes prints are finally toned using copper, gold, uranium, sepia,
>>selenium or other toners. The dangerous part of the job... For the 
>seniors
>>I'd rather use sepia. That will conserve the prints for the 
>descendants as well.
>
>>Oddmund
>
>Uranium toner???????  Never heard of such a toner.  How would describe 
>it's effect and color on the print and where can you buy it?   I'm not 
>sure I want to anyhow, I use a  selenium for increasing D-max without 
>significant color changes .
>
>(I can't resist this one)  Is this how you achieve the Leica "glow" 
>with your Contax TVS?
>
>Still chuckling,
>
>Duane Birkey
>
>
>

I think you get photographer "glow" with uranium toner. He may have meant
"unobtanium", the rarest of rare metal toners.

Jim