#matmarrash

Haha, I try to tinker as little as possible, now that Ive got a workflow thats fairly consistent. ;)Keep in touch if you ever want to get into carbon, as I love demonstrating the process. Once you see a carbon print...

Lol, yeah I think "tinker" may have been a poor choice of word. My process is like clockwork and completely predictable at this point -- with pt/pd at least. I meant more along the lines of enjoying the process for its own sake.

Another variable that few traditional printers consider is time. The time spent producing a Pt/Pd print versus, say a collodion POP print or albument print, or carbon print is significantly less. More money per print, but ultimately less time.

If youre looking for the true 4x5 size, you may want to spring for a holder by Jody Ake: incameraindustries.comThey are made based off the old Graflex pressure film holder design and are superb!

I've been considering that, I saw them over at B&S a while back and have been thinking about it. Too broke at the moment though. 

matmarrash replied to your photoset: Fumed Silica for Platinum/Palladium Printing ...

Im a big fan of the added punch the fumed silica adds to the print. If you ever want to see a little more DMax, you should give carbon transfer a try. ;)

It's funny you mention that, I was going to tweet you about that the other day. I totally drooled all over my keyboard a few weeks back watching your carbon transfer demo vids (not to mention Jim Fitzgerald's excellent walkthrough). My only worries with carbon is either I need to pay a Canadian-whipping-boy premium on shipping ($45 for $39 worth of tissue) from Bostick and Sullivan or give my partner a heart-attack when she sees our kitchen after my first attempts at pouring my own glop. I've already given myself a heart attack seeing the $150 shipping and hazmat fee for full wet-plate kit, not sure I could survive another.

The question I was going to ask over twitter is what your opinion would be on how friendly the process is for small / dual-purpose spaces. I'm living and printing out of a two-bedroom downtown apartment and don't currently have access to a traditional darkroom. My coating station is a galley-kitchen counter, my darkroom and processing area is a tiny bathroom, and my digital negs and exposure station is the bulk of our increasing poorly-named "guest bedroom".