This stuff is FujiLith Ortho Film, Type L LO-N100. Does anybody out there
know if this is still available, and in what sizes, and how much? The stuff
I have is eight years old. I hope its not discontinued.
>Richard Sullivan says:
>Mike,
>
>An interesting formula. How did you arrive at this? What was your thinking
>process and criteria for such brilliant wackiness. I love the creative
>technology stuff.
>
>Dick S.
Dick, I used Rodinal because I had it on the shelf. I wanted to do a
quick check on how this film performed. I started with Rodinal 1:100
knowing that I needed to greatly reduce the contrast curve of lith to give
continuous tone. This was too flat so I increased the strength until I got
what I wanted.
Once I had a good positive, the reversal part was your idea. The bleach
formula is pretty common to many proceedures I had been reading about. I
tried to redevelop in the same developer (Rodinol) but I got poor density,
so grabbed some Ilford MG paper developer and used it 1:3, again, because I
had it on the shelf.
Normally I mix my own developers but beacause I had no idea what this film
would do I wanted to quickly determine its usefulness.
I also have some Kodak Accumax AL17 line and plotting film 16 X 20. I
haven't tested this yet, but the fellow who gave it to me tells me that it
should be even better that the Fuji. Has anybody used it for alt process
negs?
Mike Robinson