Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: dchew on December 13, 2008, 07:04:46 pm
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I just finished mounting and matting about a dozen prints. In the video, Bill Atkinson separates the backing from the P90 tape in one magic movement. Why does it take me five $#@* minutes to do that with each piece? I feel like I have mittens on.
I'll bet Chris took at least 30 takes of that shot. Or is there some secret that I don't know about?
And now that I look at the box I got from Light Impressions, it says Filmoplast P, not P90. Did they send me (or did I order) the wrong stuff?
Please tell me before I go nuts.
Dave Chew
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I just finished mounting and matting about a dozen prints. In the video, Bill Atkinson separates the backing from the P90 tape in one magic movement. Why does it take me five $#@* minutes to do that with each piece? I feel like I have mittens on.
I'll bet Chris took at least 30 takes of that shot. Or is there some secret that I don't know about?
And now that I look at the box I got from Light Impressions, it says Filmoplast P, not P90. Did they send me (or did I order) the wrong stuff?
Please tell me before I go nuts.
Dave Chew
P90 is much thicker, plain old P is super thin and hopelessly dainty for invisible mends on thin paper documents. Bet you're having trouble getting it started, much easier with P90 than P. I was surprised to find out that P90 has a rather non-neutral pH, almost 9. Is that really archival? I tried that stuff for a while, found dry mounting more to my liking.
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Thanks Bill.
So I got the wrong stuff. As for pH, I wasn't too worried about it, especially since watching the Henry Wilhelm interview.
A pH of 9 isn't terribly high, and I bet pH is much less important than oxidizers like ozone and UV.
Dave Chew