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Good afternoon list, this is my first post so first an introduction.
25 years on and am still enjoying both studio and location work, panoramas
and macro work are my specialisations but cover most areas with the same degree
of professionalism. Am presently only shooting digitally to 35mm due
to client requirements but am gently persuading them onwards and upwards-still
have a darkroom and keeping Martin at Silverprint supplied with beer
tokens.
So to matters in hand, I had occasion to leave my Lyson CIS off for 2
months and all nozzles were well blocked with dry ink, (I had covered them
but it still happens), so I spoke to a printer friend who advised me to use
saliva on a tightly curled tissue and swab around and into each aperture.
Apparently saliva has just the right alkalinity and viscosity to break down
dried ink without introducing water into the chamber-thus diluting the ink. It
took me about 10 minutes to clear all six nozzles and I was up an running again.
Am happy apart from bronzing on some materials- better profiling needed I
think.
Additionally, I recently purchased the Nikon 12-24 digi lens and am
extremely happy with the sharpness. This in light of my profound unhappiness
with the softness using film lenses, something to do with the thickness of estar
base on film versus the flat receptive plane of the sensor I believe.
Am enjoying the varied threads from the forum.
Nik Milner Photography
Studio 202 Avro House 7 Havelock Terrace London SW8 4AS Studio 020 7720 8123 Mobile 07836 599 233 Member of The AOP |
