helo there :)

i just moved for a 4 month work term and i'm currently using a rental darkroom (aa lot cheaper than settin up my own)... they use a machine processer for the prints with omega enlargers.. the machine can only take RC based papers, but since this is all i have access to, and can't afford my own darkroom i was wondering about the life of these prints... i've heard that RC papers will only deteriorate if there kept with oxidizing agents like in a frame.. is this true because i'm doing alot of family pictures that i want to last for a long time

thanks (and i'm very happy with the prints, using Mulitgrad IV)

steve

-- steve chung (chung.steve@fin.gc.ca), June 02, 1998

Answers

If you fix and wash the prints carefully they should last as long as tray-developed RC prints. I used to use machine processors at newspapers, and noticed the contrast and tonal gradation wasn't as good as tray devloping, but have not had a problem with properly fixed and washed prints fading. If you can't do that in the rental darkroom, buy some trays and chemistry to fix and wash your prints in the bathroom when you get home.

-- Darron Spohn (sspohn@concentric.net), June 03, 1998.