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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-02-16 09:42:04

Made new test prints on some off-cuts, using a slightly stronger developer solution than usual to see impact on max. depth. The main image (Eagle Creek, Oregon) is using 18% sodium acetate (curve corrected negative), the test strips are of 20% and 15% solutions (both uncorrected). The phone capture doesn't really show the differences too well, but I think I will go for the 18-20% from now on...
(Btw. The original image is here:

iPhone photo of 3 printed pieces of paper on a table., the largest showing a kallitype print of a moody scene of a mountain creak flowing through a wintry forest canyon. Below the main image are two smaller test strips showing gradients and checkerboard patterns (partially cut off)
@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-17 20:14:23

If you have a housepet that likes to chew your cables, buy some of picrel in the thinnest gauge you can find to cover the individual cable. Tape the junction between the cable and cladding with 3M™ Acetate Cloth Electrical Tape (a.k.a. fabric wiring harness tape). Worked for me for 15 years and counting.
Since this is Mastodon, inb4 "ohh but I have a macaque that likes to use her opposable thumbs to remove the cladding and chew through specifically the ground wire" -> sux…

Cable tidy