PHOTON

July 1995


July cover photo
Cyclops
A group of British Midlands, Birmingham, based photographers teamed up to stage their own exhibition and publish an acclaimed color book. Here's a selection of their innovative and varied work
Agfa's new E6 RSX 50 and 200
Shirley Kilpatrick tested the latest release of the new Agfa slide films, their 50 and 200 speed emulsions, during a quick tour of Manhattan and nearby attractions
The simplest developer of all
Derek Watkins explains how to make up and use Kodak's D-23 black and white film developer, which uses only two simple chemicals and provides highly flexible results with almost all films
Agfa Scala toned and pushed
Jon Tarrant follows up David Kilpatrick's June introduction to the new Agfa Scala black and white slide film by showing how it can be push and pull processed, and how well it responds to color toning
Gary Regester's Scandles light source
American photography Regester designed a fluorescent light-head for digital and video photography without heat, power consumption or flicker problems. Now it is being made, in Britain, by Systems Imaging. We test it
Sterling Premium and Lith papers
Les McLean tries out the Indian-made Sterling fine art photo papers with their high silver content and unique qualities. A must for exhibition printers!
The networkable Epson Stylus 720 XL Pro A3 inkjet printer
We found the 720-dot CMYK A3 Ethernet printer from Epson to be more than just acceptable. It enabled fine-art quality prints on watercolor paper - and even a method for producing high density backlit display transparencies on paper. Glowing test report!
Cradoc CaptionWriter V
Perfect Niche Software's slide captioning and database program runs on even the slowest and oldest Macs
The Amstrad PDA600 Penpad
Richard Kilpatrick was fascinated but a little disappointed; the Amstrad answer to Apple's Newton now costs under �100 in Britain, but can it do anything?
Electronic imaging news
Richard's round-up of press news from the computer and digital imaging field
Adobe Photoshop and CMYK Separations
Only read this if you use Photoshop for pre-press work. It's a troubleshooting document based on recent problems and investigations
Mask your Identity!
Icon has a special offer for darkroom printers - custom made lith film masks with your choice of border line, scanned signature, and text