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[Harry B Houchins]

I'm ready to start. I'm printing my negatives with an Epson R2400 on Pictorico OHP. What I'm looking for is some guidance on the contrast for these negs. Do I use a curve for Pt/Pd or lower the contrast as I would for gum or use a nice even balance of a "normal" negative. Looking for a starting point will save me some materials in experimenting, I hope.

Harry B Houchins
www.lightspeed-images.com

[Popescu Mario-Cezar]

Richard Farber says in “Historic Photographic Processes” (ISBN: 1880559935), p. 45:

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Like salted paper, albumen has a long tonal range that benefits from a dense negative, such as one that has a density range of about 1.6 — too dense to print on even a grade 0 paper.

Good luck with albumen prints and please don't forget to share the results

[Harry B Houchins]

 Popescu Mario-Cezar, on 29 October 2011 - 11:59 AM, said:

Richard Farber says in “Historic Photographic Processes” (ISBN: 1880559935), p. 45:

Good luck with albumen prints and please don't forget to share the results

Thanks for the input. Just a couple more things to build for the garage/darkroom and should have some results later in November. Harry

[dhdavison@eircom.net]

If you have a decent negative you don't need luck. Just follow B&S' instructions to the letter. Its a doddle. I have made excellent albumen prints from negs that printed well on PT/PL