Re: Collodion

oops.

Dear Ken I am Sorry, that was another one of those days when I take out
my house keys and spend half a minute trying to figure out how to put
them into the ticket machine on the subway.

That should have been Collotype, I believe a relative of carbon.

I recently aquired a botle of collodion solution to try out as substrate
for carbon-film after woodburytype instructions, so either that or a
minor mix up of the Japanese prononciation of collotype was the source.

did look at this page last week so I should have remembered.

http://www.lavendera.com/PrintingTech/collotype.htm
(this is not where I am going)

sorry
Halvor

Did however learn that I can look for the EDO museum to se wet plate
cameras, which I will do one day, Thanks.

watsok@frii.com wrote:
> Halvor,
>
> Could you be a little more specific about “collodion printing”? I visited
> and helped a group of fellows in Tokyo with the Wet Plate Collodion
> process a few years ago. I assume you are not talking about printing from
> Wet Plate negatives when you say “collodion printing”. Why use collodion
> in printing?
>
> I had heard ( in the U.S.) that Japan still uses collodion in commercial
> processes. The people I talked to did not know of any one else, except
> perhaps a college professor, who was doing anything with collodion I
> thought that maybe it was a myth.
>
> I did run across what looked to be wet plate cameras in a museum, I think
> it was the EDO museum some where in Tokyo.
> So I am very interested to hear anything you may find out.
>
> Ken Watson
> watsok@frii.com
>
>
>
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