Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Preserving prints and transparancies
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 00:09:56 -0600

At 12:40 PM 4/3/99 +0000, you wrote:
>I heard that Selenium toning involves handling a toxic chemical.  How
>serious is this threat to human health?

None if you use rubber gloves, which should be done for any toning anyway. 
You can buy it in liquid form last time I checked, so there's no danger of 
breathing the dust. I like what it does to Oriental and Ilford papers I've 
used. But I haven't printed black and white for years.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

One should never generalize.