RE: Lith film

Philippe,

We're repeating exchanges..;-)..

see: /lists/alt-photo-process/2002/oct02/0431.htm

Best,

Cor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monnoyer Philippe [mailto:monnoyer@imec.be]
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:25 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: RE: Lith film
>
>
> Well, interesting. My understanding in previous discussions
> was that lith film could be used for the interpositive step,
> where compression does not matter.
> I see this info is all in Post Factory Photography. I don't
> have it yet.
> Could you send me your curves off list in the meantime ?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Philippe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Breukel, C. (HKG) [mailto:C.Breukel@lumc.nl]
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:03
> To: 'alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca'
> Subject: RE: Lith film
>
>
> Philippe,
>
> All these things have been discussed in the past, and 2 articles were
> written in the past issues of Post Factory.
>
> The first one by Dave Somarko, were he describes the his approach and
> developer (LC1) to make cont. tone enlarged negatives with
> Freestyles APH
> lith film.
>
> I have used his developer to process in-camera exposed APH
> Lith fime with
> his LC1 developer to cont. tone negatives for oa albumen printing (I
> included curves as well). This at the cost of the speed: it's 1 ASA.
>
> Liam Lawless has discribed a method to reversal processing
> APH film (also
> cont tone, also in PF).
>
> I believe this info can also be found by a good Google search,
>
> Best,
>
> Cor
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Monnoyer Philippe [mailto:monnoyer@imec.be]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:35 AM
> > To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> > Subject: Lith film
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I see a lot of people are talking about lith film. I'm not
> > much aware of the previous discussions on this topic since
> > the beginning of the list but I'm curious: I have a limited
> > experience with lith film, but the few I tested NEVER gave me
> > a long range of tones suiting palladiotype or platinotype. I
> > even used very very soft developping agents and dilutions.
> > The Dmax can be high, but a long halftone range was
> > impossible. I should check the manufacturing specifications
> > of such films, but in the meantime, let me propose 3
> > hypothesis and ask you to react on it
> >
> > So I see 3 possibilities here:
> > - I'm wrong, and, indeed, some lith film can give a long
> > halftone range, like for example, from base+fog to above 3.
> > In this case, could you please share the film name and dev.
> > conditions, and, very important, send the curves.
> > - The lith film users do not need the whole haltone range,
> > they compress their original neg values and they print high
> > contrast images because this is what they want.
> > - The lith film users do not print in pure Palladiotype or
> > Platinotype. Either they add contrast agents to their
> > sensitiser or they choose more contrasty processes like
> > cyanotype to suit their lith film curve.
> >
> > Maybe this has been answered in the past. In this case I'm
> > sorry and ask you when.
> >
> > Thank you all,
> >
> > Philippe
> >
>
Received on Thu Dec 11 05:27:50 2003