Re: Kallitype image invertion


Jacques Augustowski (jacquesa@acd.ufrj.br)
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 22:07:08 -0300 (GRNLNDST)


Hi Joao,
Yes, after fixing, the image became positive. In Kodaks calibrated step
wedge i get about 9 stops. My safe light is safe to kallitype papers. I
use the normal fixing bath for kallitypes. I thought the negative image
appeared because of a polarization shift in the light reflected from the
print, caused by the suspended particles in the developer. The exposure
time was the usual one used for almost 200 prints. Nothing different was
done to the hole process. My only suspicion is the coating thickness, that
I wasn't monitored by me.
Jacques
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Joao Ribeiro wrote:

> Hi Jacques,
>
> I noticed that Kallitypes, at least mine, do not have much exposure range and
> solarize easily!
> I am using this effect and printing some very contrasty negatives reverting
> tones in the shadows.
> My combination paper/sensitizer gives me 10 steps in the stoufer scale, how
> long are you getting?
> Also, the image reversed completely in the fixing bath?
> I notice some tone lost in it but not that far. May be I am using a much
> weaker fixer, mine is a 5,6 % Hypo solution with 2 ml of strong ammonia per
> liter.
> Joao
>
> Jacques Augustowski wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Today one of my students was printing a Kallitype and developing in
> > Rochelle salts. The image turned negative when immersed in the developer.
> > I thought it could be a shift in polarization. When taken out of the
> > developer the image was still negative. Putting it in the EDTA clearing
> > bath didn't revert the situation. Only after fixing the image became
> > positive. The safe light was a 15W tungsten bulb about three feet from de
> > developer tray. Looking in my X-Files, I found no info.
> > Jacques
>
>
>
>



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