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  1. AZO printers who use r-40 300 watt bulb-

    About 3 feet. But it can be higher or lower.
  2. The struggle for greatness (in photography)

    Regarding the subject title "The Struggle for Greatness." I do not believe that is a struggle any serious artist ever thinks about. You just try to make the best pictures you can and try to keep...
  3. The struggle for greatness (in photography)

    Edward Weston looked very carefully at every square inch of the ground glass. So do I and so does my wife, Paula Chamlee. And so does every photographer who uses a view camera seriously, famous or...
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    Kentmere Bromide Users

    Not yet.
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    Kentmere Bromide Users

    The Azo replacement will include an 11x14 size.
  6. Developing my first 8x10 - stand development

    Stand development in a tray is more than likely to give you streaking on your negative. See the extensive discussion on the Azo Forum about this. (www.michaelandpaula.com under "Azo". Then search.)
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    Focusing cloth

    The dark cloth measures 96" (wide) x 60" (front to back) hemmed. Two layers of black, one of white. Makes a great pad for carrying a 35-pound 12x20. (My camera is a 12x20 with an 8x20 back.)
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    Fomalux Contact Papers

    Well of course Azo is not the only paper on which fine prints can be made. And it is not the right paper for making certain kinds of prints. But if one is seriously interested in making traditional...
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    Fomalux Contact Papers

    I was asked by Jay to describe what is in Azo. I replied quoting a reference that contact papers are silver chloride papers. No bromide, or iodide added. Just chloride. Kodak has told me, and many...
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    Fomalux Contact Papers

    A quick check of one easy-to-access book says under " Contact printing equipment" (page 427 in Henney & Dudley, Handbook of Photography, 1939) (A great book if anyone is interested in the one...
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    Fomalux Contact Papers

    All of the contact printing papers, originally called "gaslight" paper because they were exposed by gaslight, including Convira, Haloid, Velox, and the many others that once existed were all silver...
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    Fomalux Contact Papers

    There is no definition of "contact printing paper." However, contact printing papers have usually been thought of as silver chloride papers. That is what they were historically. As I said, you can...
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    Fomalux Contact Papers

    Despite what Bergger says (and I am good personal friends with them) their contact paper is not a pure silver chloride paper.

    I assume that if people have not gotten Azo from us they haven't...
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    Fomalux Contact Papers

    I have said this many times before. The Bergger paper is NOT a silver chloride paper and is not a contact printing paper, despite what they call it. Anyone can call anything a contact printing paper....
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    Workshop in Sedona, Arizona

    Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee will be conducting a "Vision and Technique Workshop" from Thursday evening, January 26 through Sunday afternoon, January 29, 2006 in Sedona, Arizona under the...
  16. Processed to "Museum Archival Standards"

    The standards I thought were in existence have to do with the amount of allowable fixer remaining in the print after it has been washed. The silver nitrate test (I forget the initials for it) gives...
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    Book publishing services

    Dual Graphics is an excellent printer--the best in the USA. I used them for three of the Lodima Press books, and they are heartily recommended. But they are very expensive. When we started printing...
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    Book publishing services

    " If you can get money to cover or at least subsidize the actual production costs, selling becomes much easier."

    Actually selling doesn't become any easier. It is just that the pressure is off.
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    Book publishing services

    Oceanic Graphic Printing (OGP).

    If you, or anyone else contacts them, please mention that the reference came from me. Thank you.

    Unless you know what you are doing and how to evaluate a press...
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    Book publishing services

    Those prices do not seem so good to me. Paula Chamlee and I recently formed BackStreetBooks, a division of our publishing company, Lodima Press. We had a book printed in Hong Kong. Excellent quality....
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    What Would Edward Weston Use Today?

    Greg: Convira was a silver chloride paper, not chloro-bromide.

    Ken: That is exactly what I do.

    Bill: It was a different photograph under discussion. No moon in the one we were discussing.
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    What Would Edward Weston Use Today?

    Well, Adams clearly got exactly what he wanted. A little more exposure would have solved the foreground detail problem. I've had to do that much dodging and burning myself. DBI is no panacea, but in...
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    What Would Edward Weston Use Today?

    Paul: "Michael, perhaps you could explain how developing by inspection could have reduced the number of burning/dodging operations shown in Adams printing notes (on page 108)?"

    Well, if he had...
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    Vertical Banquet Camera Project

    Quite a project indeed, and it is beautiful, but making a vertical camera does not have to be that complicated. Back in the early 1980s I took an old 8x20 Korona and had it converted to a vertical...
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    contact printing paper

    8x10. As previously mentioned, there is still enough border.

    Have you tried printing on Azo--the only silver chloride contact printing paper still available? Although Kodak stopped making it...
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    What Would Edward Weston Use Today?

    Exactly, Brian. But does it work? If it did, wouldn't Adams have gotten negatives closer to what he wanted--so that while he would have had to do some dodging and burning, he wouldn't have had to do...
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    What Would Edward Weston Use Today?

    Surprising, Bill. In my opinion Edward Weston's prints from the late 1930s and early 1940s are among his very finest.

    As Jim said, he only used a few sheets of paper because he had exposure and...
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    What Would Edward Weston Use Today?

    Edward Weston printed on silver chloride paper. The only silver chloride paper in existence now is Azo. Edward did print on Azo, as well as on many other silver chloride papers. He certainly did...
  29. Editing by woodstove - what do you throw out?

    Bruce, I don't disagree with you about the ad. But since Brett's name came up and there was interest in what he had done, I thought it not too inappropriate to mention the books we are doing. As for...
  30. Editing by woodstove - what do you throw out?

    Brett's position makes a lot of sense. He once said, " I don't care if someone can print my negatives better. It would no longer be my work."

    Well, Jorge, we have published major books by Richard...
  31. Editing by woodstove - what do you throw out?

    Toss 'em.

    Some people do know about Brett's negatives. Many of Brett's negatives were already destroyed before the celebrated burning. And thousands were disposed of that day--before the burning. ...
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    problems with spotting prints

    Do not use hardener in your fixer and the spotting medium should sink right in.

    It is "medium," not "medim." I should not be so quick with my postings.
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    problems with spotting prints

    Do not use hardener in your fixer and the spotting medim should sink right in.
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    Status of Azo

    No definitive word on when the new paper will be ready, but we will be busting our ass to have it ASAP. We are shooting to have it before the end of the year--and a lot sooner than that if at all...
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    Status of Azo

    The Bergger "Contact" paper really isn't a contact printing paper. It is not a silver chloride paper. While some have made fine prints on it, it does not have the long tonal scale of Azo. It seems it...
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    Kodak Discontinuing B&W Paper?

    No, Bruce, Kodak will not make Azo or any other paper. But we are working with others in the industry. A silver chloride paper will be made.
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    Status of Azo

    I'll try to respond to the comments and questions.

    First, thanks for the expressions of support. Paula and I are working very hard at this. We'll have enough Azo for ourselves to last us...
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    Status of Azo

    I spoke with Kodak today. Here is the quick version of my report:

    There is plenty of Azo on hand. No one needs to panic.

    A few years ago Paula and I saved Azo from extinction. We didn't do this...
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    Platinum Prints

    Jorge, we know the prints will be expensive to make and we need to figure out a way to pay for more than the first test.

    Fortunately, Salto will not be making expensive mistakes. They have it...
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    Platinum Prints

    There is no secret. I had mentioned in a much earlier posting that they used three (or four) negatives. Recently I learned that it is three negatives plus a shadow mask. (I can only guess at what a...
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