Re: lith printing and golfball grain
Judy,
I have a lot of those books from that time that I have found at abebooks.com
but won't know until you can locate the title.
I've taught lith now for 8 years, once a year, and I have not seen as much
grain as I have this year on the Arista.edu paper. It's funny because I was
recommending the students to use Bergger because that has always been
excellent in the past, but the Arista was for sale at the university
bookstore so they were the ones to turn me on to it in their practice.
I have no idea if Fotospeed changed their formulation or what. Or if papers
have morphed.
Chris
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: "Alt List" <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: lith printing and golfball grain
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
Chris, there was a little book out in the '80s (or maybe the 70s ?) about
ways to increase grain. Have you got it? At the time, the absolute apogee
of Ansel Adams, it was considered iconoclastic, tho I don't recall much we
don't take for granted these days. But if you don't have it I'll look for
it ...(and if luck prevails I could find it, at least as a matter of
academic/historic interest).
Re: lith printing.
Using Fotospeed Lith developer at 60ml A and 60ml B in 1 liter of water
dilution, the Arista.edu paper gives GOLFBALL grain that is really
incredible. At least, I love it. I have a student doing these vacant
night time scenes of industrial walls sort of with a single light
shining, snow on the ground, and the grain is really quite effective to
set a mood. I have not seen this kind of grain on a paper otherwise. I
find Ilford Multigrade IV to be blah and not very good, Bergger paper is
fine grained and caramel toned and pretty darn good. Kentmere Fineprint
is good....pinky. That's all...
Chris
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