Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/07

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Subject: [Leica] I Poured a wet plate collidian today...
From: chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:44:06 -0500

Scan or photograph with a digital camera the final print after you make a
print with the plate. That's probably more accurate than a scan of the plate
would be with an old process like that anyway. Can't wait to see it :)


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On 11/7/10 3:28 PM, "Richard Man" <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote:

> Btw, it's Ben Nixon, I may have mistyped last night. The fixer is regular
> fixer. There's a solution with cadmium, but iforgot which one. We 're
> wearing gloves of course. He did the actual inserting the plate in the
> holder and pull it out and put in the developer as you have to do them in
> the dark. He converted his trunk as a portable darkroom for that. Overall,
> it's pretty easy once you have the system setup.
> 
> He says the plate is hard to scan, I'll let you folks know next week. I 
> sold
> all my enlarger paper (oops) and move to contact paper but will figure
> something out
> 
> Thanks
> On Nov 7, 2010 2:33 AM, "Tarek Charara" <tcharara at mac.com> wrote:
>> Ahhh, wow! that's something I put on my "things I want to do list"! i have
> a 8x10 camera from the early 20th century with a carl Zeiss lens that I 
> want
> to use for just that? Was it "easy" to do? Did you you use regular fixer or
> potassium cyanide??
>> 
>> I'd love to see the results you obtained!
>> 
>> All the best,
>> 
>> Tarek
>> 
>> Le 7 nov. 2010 ? 09:25, Richard Man a ?crit :
>> 
>>> In a weekend long workshop and I attended a session with Ben Nelson on
> his
>>> wet plate collidian process. Afterward, he made a group portrait with us.
> A
>>> couple of us stayed behind after that and he asked if we wanted to try
> it.
>>> 
>>> But of COURSE :-) Way cool!
>>> 
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