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Subject: Re: [OM] an old fantasy
From: HI100@xxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:45:56 EDT
farrar@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< A recent Popular Photography had an article about street photographers
 in Havana who do pretty much this. They have homemade setups. They expose
 onto B&W printing paper, develop. Then they take a second exposure of that.
 At the intermediate stage they can alter the picture, for example by 
 adding a picture of Che Guevara into your picture. 
>>

This seems common in many places in South America. For example in Peru I have 
photographed them doing this in the main plazas in little mountain towns. The 
cameras are old german bellows units modified to hold chemicals on the side 
of the bellows. So the bellows become an extended darkroom. They do local 
contrast control using ferricyanide rubbed on the paper to lighten people's 
faces etc.   The bellows rack out to do 1:1 copying for the final positive.
           Of course if you do only one exposure onto the paper originally 
and contact print (similar to a polaroid but not chemical diffussion) face to 
face you get only one set of lens aberations unlike most normal situations 
where the enlarger or projector adds to the image degradation. It is only 
because the RC papers have reasonably uniform bases and no logos that this 
kind of printing is vauguely practical these days. Ilford has some discussion 
of this in their paper literature.

Regards,

Tim Hughes 
>>>Hi100@xxxxxxx<<<

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