Digital BW, The Print

Yep.  Not many folks want to spend the money.  I've only seen on print in a gallery framed with Museum glass.  It's sure is nice, though.  Whatever is behind it looks better than without anything at all.
   
  Tom Baker

bradspix <b-evans@...> wrote:
          Musuem Glass was not mentioned.

She was talking about UV-blocking glass. Which Conservation Clear is. No individual I 
know sells regular prints framed in the **much** more expensive Tru Vue Museum Glass, 
which also has reflection-controlling properties. The UV-blocking characteristics of both 
Museum Glass and Conservation Clear is the same - 98%. 

Brad
Prison pix: http://www.citysnaps.net/AlcaBook/Alcatraz

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tom Baker <tbaker1328@...> 
wrote:
>
> Conservation Clear is not the museum glass. Different stuff.
> 
> Tom Baker
> 
> bradspix <b-evans@...> wrote:
> If you buy conservation glass by the box the price isn't so bad. For example, a 
box of 
> 16x20 Tru Vue Conservation Clear costs around $75. For 23 sheets, that's $3.26 per 
> sheet. 
> 
> Less expenseive than having a 16x20 sheet of regular single-strength window 
> glass cut at the local window glass store.
> 
> Brad
> Prison pix: http://www.citysnaps.net/AlcaBook/Alcatraz
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard Smallfield 
> <r.smallfield@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I wondered how many of us always frame pigment prints with conservation glass.
> > 
> > To keep prices down I use plain glass, but wonder if I should be using uv protective 
> glass to ensure longevity.
> > 
> > I had a poster up in a cafe advertising my portrait services and in a year it had gone 
> quite green - that was with Ultrachromes on Epson Matte Heavyweight. I don't know 
how 
> much protection plain glass gives - not much I would think.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Richard
> > --
> > http://smallfield.vze.com
> > http://photos.smallfield.vze.com (Photos web site)
> > http://warkworth.vze.com/ (Warkworth photo essay)
> > 
> > 
> > "Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with
> > the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
> > --Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
> >
> 
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