Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have one platinum print - a 4x5" contact print done by Ryujie. It's quite beautiful. He now does digital neg though as it gives him a lot more control in terms of printing. I have seen other platinum prints that are not so good. On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote: > I think that contact prints on silver chloride paper tend to look > best; I still have a pile of Kodak Azo for doing this. Too many Pt/Pd > prints get done on papers with surfaces that rob all the resolution > from the neg anyway, leaving you with something you may aswell ahve > done with an inkjet neg. I have an exquisite sample Pt contact print > from a pre-World War One Ilford Catalogue, back when commercially > available Pt paper was made. Commercial Pt paper coated onto a 300 > gsm stock like Forte used for Polywarmtone would just be beautiful. I > can only dream. > > Marty > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]