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Recent Posts

  • 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

4x5 8x10 35mm black & white C41 carbon transfer color color carbon color developer color negative crossover darkroom equipment DAS dichromate digital digital negatives dispersion DIY PCB double transfer ECN2 enlarger light source film development final support gelatin glop inkjet Kodak Vision3 large format linearization paper pigment printing Pyrocat HD RA4 RC paper RGB LEDs scanning sizing subbing temporary support tissue UV exposure unit UV LEDs UV light source UV tubes

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