Negatives for Albumen
Harry B Houchins
21 Oct 2011
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
Harry B Houchins
www.lightspeed-images.com
Popescu Mario-Cezar
29 Oct 2011
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 
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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.
Harry B Houchins
30 Oct 2011
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
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
18 Jan 2013
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
