Re: Pinhole and ortho film

[George L Smyth <glsmyth@yahoo.com>]

I use this film at EI 6 and develop via Dektol 1+10 for about 2.5 minutes. 
This seems to work fairly well with Van Dyke.

Cheers -

george



--- "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net> wrote:
> I would like info on ortho pinhole negs as you do them, Gord.  Today I used
> Arista APH in cam, figuring an ISO of 10 which gave me a sunny 16 on my
> camera of 28 seconds (two extra exposures at 56 and 112 to account for
> reciprocity failure).  I just ordered Bergger BPF 18 and plan on trying
> that, too.  I will develop the APH in Dektol 1:6 for 1.5 min, hopefully
> tonight if I can drag myself into the school darkroom.  Is that about what
> you do??  This was using Howard Efner's hand manufactured 4x10 inch
> panoramic pinhole camera that he is so graciously lending me.   Howard, with
> a changing bag all was well.  I went in and cut the film in the darkroom to
> size and then put the box (cumbersome) into the changing bag.  Next time
> I'll be wiser and just use a smaller black plastic bag.  Roll film pinholes
> are really convenient, but a large neg will be so cool!
> chris
> > Hi:
> >
> > You do pinhole.  I've been using ortho film to make continuous tone
> > negatives from large pinhole cameras.  With the big negatives I can do
> > cyanotypes, salt prints, gum prints with no need to produced enlarged
> > negatives, or buy a bigger view camera.  Cyanotypes and salt prints can be
> > printed in the sun fairly easily.
> 
> 


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