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Adolpho 68M
3303 posts
5/26/2016 3:56 pm
Danville Library
This photograph is one I made some twelve or thirteen years ago. I have not ever printed the negative before. Danville, Kansas is a small old town that lies near the Kansas - Oklahoma border. Population is supposedly around 64. I did not see a single one of those people on the Sunday afternoon when I made the exposure.

The film negative was exposed in an 8X10 view camera (think of old camera with bellows). The camera I used for this exposure was almost 90 years old and the lens was almost as old. The film negative is obviously 8 inches by 10 inches. The negative is then contact printed onto the carbon tissue that I produce.

This print is made with the carbon transfer process that originated in 1856 and fell out of use with the advent of silver halide emulsions in the 1890's. The reason for the discontinuance of the process was silver halide emulsions allowed for much more rapid and multiple printing output whereas carbon transfer is performed on an individual print at a time.

The process is very time consuming. A single print, not accounting for the time to make the exposure or develop the negative) will be over a day for each print.

Carbon transfer printing is considered to be the finest and most archival of all photographic print processes. The life of this print will be on the order of centuries...limited only by the paper on which it is printed.
bijou624

5/27/2016 2:44 am
    Quoting  :
The sign on the door says it was the Danville Library.


bijou624

5/27/2016 2:47 am

 I can't remember the reason now, but the photography studio I apprenticed at used one of those cameras with the 8 x 10 negative. We used another type of camera to photograph buildings, and we use a camera for portraits where the image in the viewfinder was upside down.




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