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Silver Gelatin Print
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can someone tell me a bit more about this. Is all B&W film that I get back classed as a silver gelatin print?
what’s the standard printing used in most dev shops for bw???Aimee wrote:
can someone tell me a bit more about this. Is all B&W film that I get back classed as a silver gelatin print?
what’s the standard printing used in most dev shops for bw???You need to check with the printers, if you are talking about prints a lot are using colour machines to produce black & white prints now and these will not be Silver gelatin prints. Some such as John Gunn in Wexford St will do a Silver gelatin if requested. Another professional printer Hetty Walsh will do the same and as far as i know will print either a RC or Fibre print. Fibre can be more expensive.
http://www.hettysdarkroom.com/Enjoyed looking around your website.
A silver gelatin print is one made by a chemical process in a darkroom. It could be on resin coated or fibre based paper which both contain silver-halides suspended in gelatin, i.e., light sensitive crystals of silver salts in the emulsion of the paper. When passing light through a negative, the image created on the paper becomes a possitive image as the exposed silver halides are converted to metallic silver.
If you want traditional silver prints from your negs, you would need to stress this to the shop or else you may get a scanned inkjet print, but I’m not sure whats on offer these days as I do all my own darkroom work and don’t use labs.
Peter
right then, so I gotta do some research then…
Thanks guys.Eddie. Had a look around your site. Some fantstic shots!! I can’t believe that you scratched a holga! lol
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