If that is where you are, I am still waiting to be invited to bow at the door of the dojo.
This is a truly exciting time to approach alternate processes, and Bob a tremendous thank-you for your hard work and willingness to invest in making these processes accessible to more people. As I may have mentioned, for once I am grateful to be in Toronto, where we will have a world leading resource and centre for the advancement of alternate processes. I have just broken my teeth on learning the basics of Pd/Pt printing, and encountered obstacle after obstacle in setting up, (pizza wheels, not hitting dmax on film / dmin on paper, black dot syndrome, the whole bloody gamut of biblical plagues adapted for the Pd/Pt printer.)
Oh, on smaller printers like the Epson R3880, the pizza wheel problm is avoidable by using the front end manual load feature. (I always attach the Pictorico to a piece of cardboard to reduce the chances of jamming, (just take the leading and trailing edge of the film to the cardboard. One thing to be aware of, and I know it sounds like hocus-pokus, is that the correction curve varies based on front-end loading and rear loading. I did not believe it either until Kerik Kouklis (see
http://www.kerik.com/new/ ) published measurements showing the difference. (I should have sacrifices a chicken to the gods of alternate processes.) ... Irving Penn, father of great prints, pray for me now and at the moment I enter the darkroom.
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