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• Nov 20, 2006

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printing a cyanotype is beating fuji and kodak at their own game...

 

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• Nov 20, 2006

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Is it a safe guess that cyanotypes are your prefferred method of image making?

Welcome to APUG from the southwest shores of Canada.

 

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• Nov 21, 2006

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i think it's the least expensive way to experiment, and an excellent way to test new paper, exposure units, etc... quite safe as well.

i wish it was sunny enough in the UK to expose outdoors regularly. Is there an outdoor exposure thread lurking about?

 

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• Nov 21, 2006

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xtype said:

printing a cyanotype is beating fuji and kodak at their own game...

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Could you please elaborate.....

 

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• Nov 22, 2006

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So you can make film with iron?

 

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• Nov 22, 2006

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Well... yes, if you want you can make chrysotype or cyanotype negatives. Just takes a long exposure...

About beating Kodak & Fuji - it's the process of coating your own paper with things mixed from scratch that takes the whole image making experience back.

 

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• Nov 22, 2006

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xtype said:

Is there an outdoor exposure thread lurking about?

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Carefull you will awake the moderators

BTW Welcome from another UK apuger.

Barry

 

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• Nov 22, 2006

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Yes, they would be long. I dont know how much uv can get through a lens.

 

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• Nov 22, 2006

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The one set of cyanotype negatives I've actually seen was done on Pictorico OHP film meant for inkjet printers - the ceramic coating holds sensitiser solution. I'll check on the exposure time. It's really more of an oddity than anything - the cyanotype negative.

 

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• Nov 30, 2006

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So... the cyanotype negs were exposed for two to five hours in camera (a Mamiya w/film holder) - they make interesting transparencies, but are useless to print with - don't block UV light...

 

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• Nov 30, 2006

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Try tea-toning them to add some UV density?

 

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• Dec 1, 2006

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xtype said:

So... the cyanotype negs were exposed for two to five hours in camera (a Mamiya w/film holder) - they make interesting transparencies, but are useless to print with - don't block UV light...

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Scan and re-print with appropriately colored ink to get the UV absorption?

Seem like the long-way around...

 

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• Dec 1, 2006

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I've been saving my one roll for a nice snowstorm (relatively rare in Virginia), but I believe Polablue is a cyanotype negative film.