Re: relief

Halvor,

Thanks!

I'll try to get a copy from the Woodbury Encyclopedia. Eastman House has
been helpful in doing things like this for me in the past.

I was interested also in your comments that seemed to indicate that you
needed a very high relief to pull a Woodbury plate. Is that your opinion?

Happy Holidays to you and all.

--Dick

At 07:18 AM 12/21/2004, you wrote:
>are running tests, but "while the gelatin dries":
>>What info do you have on making Woodbury plates? Can you cite on details?
>>Would love to see what you have.
>>--Dick
>
>apart from some slightly vague descriptions, the best / most detailed part
>is from; "Encyclopedia of Photography" by Walter E. Woodbury 1892 third
>edition(?). You might know this one ?
>
>(There is some lovely ideas in there; Diamond Lens: as the refractive
>index is smaller than glass the lens can be made smaller :) )
>
>also have one bachelor level thesis done by a student here in 1996, but as
>my capacity for reading Japanese is a bit slow, it might take some time
>before I get something useful out of it. On the surface it does not look
>like it contains anything too revolutionary - that is, they made some 4x5
>size prints with lead plates. Mainly following the "old way".
>
>I might try this later, but usually I like a bit bigger prints, hmmm, of
>course the way to make big prints in contact printing is to use several
>negatives -- could of course use several small prints instead...
>
>This is in one sense what I like with these processes, the mechanics and
>limitations of the processes force interesting solutions...
>
>Halvor
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