Re: Lith film

For what is worth I heard that the US made APH/S film had defects that
looked like stripes running across the film and if one ordered at that time
to ask for the film manufactured in Japan. This was the tip I got from
Stuart Melvin at the '01 APIS so the defects may or not be found now.

Don Bryant

----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:31 PM
Subject: RE: Lith film

>
>
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Liam Lawless wrote:
> > .....the fault, whatever
> > it was, probably lay deep down in the emulsion layer. Possibly a
> > coating fault, but the pattern seemed to be the same on every sheet. If
> > they coat huge sheets or rolls and then cut them up (rather than
> > individual 20X16 sheets) I wouldn't expect to see the same thing in the
> > same place on every sheet.
>
>
> This has not been the kind of day where I get to look up anything that
> isn't lying in the top layer, tho I will. Meanwhile I recall a regular
> pattern of evenly spaced stripes, about 1/4 inch wide, or bars...
> (Oyster bars?)
>
> J.
>
Received on Fri Dec 12 23:26:16 2003