Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 11/12/2005 3:39:17 A.M. Central Standard Time, mark@rabinergroup.com writes: In my college darkroom there was a big ferrotype drum thing constantly revolving in the darkroom lobby with that pre ferrotype solution right next to it and a squeegee glass with squeegee..<snip> I remember all this amazing. Amazing. I had tucked that same memory away with details not needed anymore, but like a flash, I could smell it all over again. The reason we kept the ferrotype drum going all the time is to keep at temperature. If you loaded the prints on to dryer too soon, they'd glue themselves firmly to the drum, and by the time they had made the ride three times, be baked the color of a chocolate chip cookie. Then you'd have to print them again, wash them again, and probably miss getting them on the bus to Alexandria to the engraver and then your football picture would not get in the school paper. Which was all solved with offset printing presses and your choice of glossy and flat RC papers, a scandal that probably led to digital photography. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish