Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] re B.D. Colen/TriX
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 23:29:18 -0400

 However the flexiblity and
> convenience of contact prints and your own printing for color
> neg. is readily
> available within the Beseler RA-4AT chemistry and Kodak, Fuji, or
> Ilford RA-4
> printing papers.  The RA4-AT chemistry allows ambient temperature (not
> elevated!) and tray processing that is totally intuitive to what
> you know from
> black and white work.  The print exposure times are similar,
> process times are
> similar  and the ablity to pull your own color prints is
> endlessly satisfying.
> Even the costs are similar to black and white! Simply ask your
> one hour place
> to develop only.  I usually supply a sleeve for my negs.   The
> only negative
> is learning to work the exposure itself and the developer in
> total darkness.
> This takes about two prints to get over.  I have some user notes on the
> process if anyone is interested.
>
Will - I'm sure all this is absolutely right on...But I don't have a
darkroom, and, at the moment, don't have the money to get into buying
equipment and setting up...and, quite frankly, I have always prefered the
look of B&W to color, and were it not for my wife's complaining about photos
of the kids, etc., not being in color, I would virtually never use it...