Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have been quite successfully making platinum prints from Leica M negatives for the last year or two. I tried just about everything, but eventually settled on digital (Epson 2200) negatives on Overhead Projection Material (Pictorico or Agfa Copyjet seem to work best). Dan Burkholder's book has some good information in it, but it is quite outdated now (Dan started doing this 8 years ago!) He has some updated information on his website if I remember correctly. Another very good source of information is "Precision Digital Negatives", a CD and PDF "Book" from Mark Nelson. (http:// www.precisiondigitalnegatives.com/) His system is a bit more flexible than Dan's and lets you calculate a very nice curve for your process. Dan Burkholder's relies on "canned" curves which can produce beautiful prints, but are not too flexible. The curves "correct" your photos so that the extreme contrast range on Platinum can be best used. The newer system goes a step further and uses only color inks to achieve a very high density negative. I have also successfully made curves for Salted Paper Prints (POP) and Cyanotypes. It is all a lot of fun, but you do need to have some patience. You are nuts to consider it, but that does not mean it can't be done! Please email off.list if you have more questions. Keith Bingman keith@keithbingman.com On Jul 30, 2005, at 4:15 AM, Richard wrote: > Does anyone have experience with making platinum prints? Has anyone > try using small (e.g. 35mm) negatives enlarged (or digitally > printed), or am I nuts even to consider it? :-) > > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, > please use richard at imagecraft.com) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >