Negative intensification test
Using the 5X7 Seneca camera with the R&J Beck rectilinear 8X5 brass lens. I made a few glass negatives this afternoon, using John Coffer's "No. 7" with the corresponding developer. I then did an intensification using the two step bleach-then-silver nitrate-bath process. This plate is one of the two negs I got some success with, though both are horribly marred with pinholes (why??). This little rectilinear lens is actually quite sweet, and its going to stay on the 5X7 I think.
Exposure was 80 seconds in bright overcast light.
NOTE: the Daffoldils at the center of the group were yellow with orange trumpets,and these photographed dark, with the trumpets almost rendering black!
Negative intensification test
Using the 5X7 Seneca camera with the R&J Beck rectilinear 8X5 brass lens. I made a few glass negatives this afternoon, using John Coffer's "No. 7" with the corresponding developer. I then did an intensification using the two step bleach-then-silver nitrate-bath process. This plate is one of the two negs I got some success with, though both are horribly marred with pinholes (why??). This little rectilinear lens is actually quite sweet, and its going to stay on the 5X7 I think.
Exposure was 80 seconds in bright overcast light.
NOTE: the Daffoldils at the center of the group were yellow with orange trumpets,and these photographed dark, with the trumpets almost rendering black!