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- Getting organizized – A database for carbon transfer tissues
- Ciao from Sicily – Some postcards
- Don’t look down – Getting your film x-rayed when flying
- Rolling – Gearing up DAS carbon printing
- Ready, set, go – Stuff you need to get started with carbon transfer
- Knowing what’s right, but getting it wrong – Some silly color problems
- A ‘contrast ceiling’ of DAS carbon with continuous tone negatives
- Peaks or plateaus – Light sources for DSLR scanning color negatives
- Aching, flaking – A persistent problem with carbon DAS highlights
- Subtleties – Subbing intermediate supports for DAS carbon transfer and a note on pigment prep
- Balancing act – A brief look at ECN2 vs. C41 colors
- Puzzling paper problem – A carbon transfer print surface anomaly
- Creative possibilities in RA4 printing
- Collimated vs. diffuse light – a cyanotype example
- Kind of blue – A test with UV LEDs for DAS carbon transfer
- Creative RA4 – Bleach and redevelop
- A round roll in a square box – Cutting RA4 color paper sheets from roll
- Fixing Sekonic L-358 and NP spot meter wrong readings
- Composition target practice
- Different kind of print – Making PCB’s at home
- Pixels, not grains – Why RA4 paper is ‘digital’, and why this matters (not?)
- Between the lines – The importance of interlayers in RA4 color paper
- DAS right! – Solving the teething problems of DAS carbon transfer
- Color carbon made feasible part 2: sensitizer-incorporated tissue
- Color carbon made feasible, part 1: halftone screens
- Color carbon and digital inkjet negatives: challenges
- Potato, potato – Making an old Sigma lens work on every Canon EOS body
- Some images – Tractor tracks
- Easy way out – Inkjet on ‘DIY’ papers
- To stain, or not to stain – Acid and pyro developers
- Black is the new black – Pigments for B&W carbon transfer
- (T)issues – A note on pigment dispersion and chroma
- How to ab-stain? Dichromate stain issues in carbon printing
- Fascist or facilitator – some thoughts on forum moderation
- Fairy dust – Dry pigments for color carbon
- Color me purple – Some color developer formulas including C41 and RA4
- Roll another one…modifying the Durst RCP20 for RA4 processing
- Fade to grey – The pigment balance problem
- The curve is dead, long live the curve – the linearization game, part 3
- Straight ahead– the linearization game, part 2
- Kinky curves – the linearization game, part 1
- Beam me down, Scotty: a new ultra-simple UV light source
- More woes and some silver linings – digital negatives revisited
- Couleur locale – the search for color in carbon
- First light – at the end of a particularly long tunnel
- Baby steps – enter the torture test
- All ye who enter here, abandon all hope
- A litany of woes – digital inkjet negatives and a note on dot gain mottling
- Double transfer: going once, going twice
- Sickly colors – the crossover issue
- Some small prints and a note on Fomapan 200
- The Big Ugly, part 4: (im)perfect present
- The Big Ugly, part 3: proper SMD LEDs, but no cigar (?)
- The Big Ugly, part 2: the RGB COB LED approach to color enlarging
- The Big Ugly, or building a LED color printing light source. Part 1: the beginnings
- Tissue making – curl up and dye
- Making glop – and some words on sugar, glycerin and ink
- Why RGB LEDs suck for a color RA4 enlarger
- Some light to the darkroom
- What a 300W UV floodlight is not
- UV tube vs led: a quick comparison
- Corn print
- Relieved
- Making black, making white
- PVC development tubes for sheet film
- Beginner’s luck
- New horizons