Re: Genius Film, was Lith Film

Yup, I have, and if you do a search on Maco as of around feb-march (?) of
this year, you might find some posts. It is actually just photo paper on a
clear base, and is incredibly dmaxey, I found it required about a 16 second
exposure for 4x5 film to 8x10 Maco, for instance. And then developed in
Dektol 1:7 for 2 minutes. Perhaps Freestyle has a more current
recommendation on handling this film since I tried it, which was right after
they started carrying it. Oh, I think I got info from the Maco website too.
Whatever the case, it makes good gum negs!

Oh, it's a two-stepper.

I just finished my last paper of the semester so I am a free woman for 3
weeks. I can take an oily bubble bath and then soak my Fabriano paper in
the bathtub right after--maybe develop a new version of fisheyes better than
created by Mark Nelson's rubber duckie.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Bryant" <dstevenbryant@mindspring.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 7:51 PM
Subject: Genius Film, was Lith Film

> Since there has been a lot of messages about lith film here today I
thought
> I would ask about the "Genius Film" product from Free Style.
>
> It was described in the Freestyle catalog I picked up at APIS as the
perfect
> replacement for Agfa's Gevatone N-31P. The Agfa film was a one step
product
> producing a continous tone negative directly from a con tone negative if I
> recall correctly. Priced at about $2.50 per 8x10 sheet it seems quite
> expensive, a German import.
>
> Has anyone used this film? I assumed someone might have by now, I'm sure
I'm
> not the only person who took note of it in the catalog passed out at APIS.
>
> As for APHS film, it can produce very good negatives although I usually
use
> more film than I would like making the final enlargement, since I don't
have
> a good densitometer to guide my development. The procedure outlined by
> Stuart Melvin works quite well and so does Liam Lawless reversal method.
>
> Don Bryant
>
>
>
Received on Thu Dec 11 20:44:05 2003