RE: Lith film

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 mmatusz@pdq.net wrote:

> Judy
> I have not seen such animation on the list since... indigo. I was not
> suggesting sloppy development, rather an artifact of the bleaching bath.

That wasn't actually the "insult" I had in mind, so that makes two --
Yikes ! I meant the suggestion that we hadn't thought of tray pattern,
which was in fact the first (easy) idea came to mind.

But a propos, I found certain trays (the kind with fat spokes radiating
from center) could NOT be used for ANY kind of toning, or bleach &
redevelop, as they nearly always marked film or paper. I finally managed
to get I think the make was Premier, in large sizes -- they have negative
ribs, or grooves, which don't seem to leave marks as readily. (Plating-out
toning gets marks from breathing on it.)

Meanwhile, the reversal stripes were a couple of years ago... Maybe they
corrected the fault since then?

Judy

> If you are using dichromate/sulfuric acid after processing a few sheets of
> film you will get silver sulfate precipitate. Colorless crystals that seem
> to deposit non-uniformly depending on your tray morphology.
> I just opened a new box of APHS, no markings, oyster patters, etc, but it
> seems it is a different material then what I bought last time. Silver
> image has a greenish cast with considerable fog. My last box gave me
> brownish images with low fog.
> Cheers
> Marek
>
> >
> > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 mmatusz@pdq.net wrote:
> >
> >> Judy,
> >> You would not happened to be using trays that has similar pattern?
> >> Marek
> >
> >
> > Hi Marek,
> >
> > Prepare to meet my seconds at dawn in response to your insult !!! Not to
> > mention the feminazi brigade who will picket your house for the secondary
> > implications -- after all, you didn't ask Liam about *his* trays....!! Or
> > let me put it this way:
> >
> > No.
> >
> > To amplify: unlike my person, my trays for such operations always have
> > flat bottoms.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Judy
> >
>
Received on Sun Dec 14 21:03:39 2003