good old days

[Croft]

Well As I washed some screens out tonight from my MSP3140, triloc and Karcher industrial pressure washer , I was just remembering the good days of shooting screens with  flourecent ( 7 minutes each) tubes in the driveway rinsing with a  hose or $100 pressure washer.  Those were the days.

Wait its 11:30pm DOH!!!

time to go to bed, so much for giving more time.

[Doug B]

And... handcut Rubylith, NuArc vertical camera (antique enlarger before that)...

[mk162]

i have a box of rubylith here.  i use it from time to time on random things...and to show people how good they have it.

[mooseman]

Waite a minute I shoot screens with 7 minute flourecent tubes, but I have moved indoors. These ARE the good old days I was shootin for when I dropped out  thanks for reminding me I have arrived
mooseman

[3Deep]

Whats wrong with 7 mintues, gives you time to do other things, yeah I upgraded my unit so now I,m getting 2 to 3 mintues to do other things sometimes a mintue LOL

D

[Sbrem]

And... handcut Rubylith, NuArc vertical camera (antique enlarger before that)...

Oh yeah, though my camera was a 22 x 18 horizontal, and a NuArc arc lamp. Rubylith, shading film, I even had to tray develop films when I first started.

[Doug B]

  From florescents, moving up to carbon arc.    Positives were made by placing artwork
at the base of an enlarger, exposing with some floodlights from an 8mm movie camera
to make a small negative. Then basically reversing the process to make a full size positive
focusing by eye until the image was sharp.

[Frog]

And... handcut Rubylith, NuArc vertical camera (antique enlarger before that)...

Oh yeah, though my camera was a 22 x 18 horizontal, and a NuArc arc lamp. Rubylith, shading film, I even had to tray develop films when I first started.

All was tray when I started. Of course, especially with halftone work, tray developing allowed for some adjustments and tweaks.
PMT was something I learned in school, but didn't use in this biz at first, but needed  for making mock up positioning stats for layout when I was a temporary fill-in grunt at Rolling Stone.
btw young'uns, it's not just the ease of making positives without a camera that changed, but converting continuous tone to halftones was a process all on its own, with expensive and easily damaged overlay sheets placed directly over the film during the camera exposure process.
Eventually, PMT was all I used in my own dark room. A real space saver!

(Wanna buy my Agfa?) In fact, this is the year I finally pull it out and give to the neighbor who sells scrap! Regain a little more closet space.

[Doug B]

 Frog; I almost totallly forgot about PMT. I must be getting too old.

[Sbrem]

And... handcut Rubylith, NuArc vertical camera (antique enlarger before that)...

Oh yeah, though my camera was a 22 x 18 horizontal, and a NuArc arc lamp. Rubylith, shading film, I even had to tray develop films when I first started.

All was tray when I started. Of course, especially with halftone work, tray developing allowed for some adjustments and tweaks.
PMT was something I learned in school, but didn't use in this biz at first, but needed  for making mock up positioning stats for layout when I was a temporary fill-in grunt at Rolling Stone.
btw young'uns, it's not just the ease of making positives without a camera that changed, but converting continuous tone to halftones was a process all on its own, with expensive and easily damaged overlay sheets placed directly over the film during the camera exposure process.
Eventually, PMT was all I used in my own dark room. A real space saver!

(Wanna buy my Agfa?) In fact, this is the year I finally pull it out and give to the neighbor who sells scrap! Regain a little more closet space.

So, magenta halftone screen for converting color pictures, gray halftone screen for converting black and white photos, with 3 separate exposures, Highlight Bump, Main, and Shadow with a yellow light, damn that was a lot of fun.

Steve

[3Deep]

Boy howdy you guys are old!!!!!!

Darryl

[alan802]

I have no clue what you guys are talking about!  Just think about the next generation who will have no idea what inkjet film was and how it was used. 

[Frog]

One thing is for sure. Graphics arts cameras notwithstanding, don't throw anything away!
The rich young folks will buy all of your junk as retro-cool! Church key? Oil Spout? Typewriter? Lawn Darts? can you say ebay?

The same lp's (that's long playing records) that I bought for a quarter when CD's took over, are often going for as much as one hundred times that now!(your results may vary  )

[Croft]

Frog; I almost totallly forgot about PMT. I must be getting too old.

I did so many of those I think I have blocked out that time in my life 

[tpitman]

One thing is for sure. Graphics arts cameras notwithstanding, don't throw anything away!
The rich young folks will buy all of your junk as retro-cool! Church key? Oil Spout? Typewriter? Lawn Darts? can you say ebay?

The same lp's (that's long playing records) that I bought for a quarter when CD's took over, are often going for as much as one hundred times that now!(your results may vary  )

Reminds me of the time I put an LP on the turntable, cued a track in the middle, and my kid didn't know how I hit it right at the beginning. Had to tell him to count in, then look for the smooth spot that was the space between tracks by looking across the record so you could see the smooth spots.