From: Kris Erickson (kerickso@ryerson.ca)
Date: 03/18/03-06:20:03 PM Z
If you can get the chemicals for LC1, I definitely would suggest that
with the lith film. It's very tweakable (like the Beers dev., but more
for lith I'm guessing).
I did an enlargement from an underexposed HP5 35mm neg--REALLY wonderful
separation (even for a low contrast image).
my two cents,
K
Dave Rose wrote:
>Panchromatic continuous tone film is a better choice, but don't totally give
>up on lith film. I've successfully made enlarged negatives on lith film
>from 35mm transparencies. Using a relatively flat transparency helps a lot,
>but more important is fine tuning exposure and development to control
>contrast. I've had good results using Dr. Beers print developer, POTA,
>Bromophen, and Soemarko LC1. Lith film has its limitations, e.g. red tones
>in the original will record as very dark, but it's relatively cheap and
>readily available in large sizes.
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>Dave in Wyoming
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Morgan Doud" <wernca@yahoo.com>
>To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 9:13 AM
>Subject: Usable negs from slides
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>>I know you all may be tired of this subject but I need
>>some help. I need to make some negs from 35mm color
>>transparencies. Lith film is not cutting it with the
>>transparrencies, hopelessly contrasty. I have had
>>great success using polaroid 55p/n but this obviously
>>gets prohibitively expensive. I decided to try a
>>panchromatic sheet film so what I have is Ilford Delta
>>100 and D-76 developer. My questions are:
>>Should I expose and develop normally or do I need to
>>tweak it?
>>Are their any suggestions on ballpark exposure times?
>>Is their a reason to stand in the dark for 8 minutes
>>tray developing or should I use my Jobo?
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>>Thanks for any and all input, I truly appreciate all
>>the info on this list.
>>
>>From a fresh recruit to alt proc,
>>Morgan Doud
>>
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