From: David Foy (dfoy@marketactics.com)
Date: 05/09/03-05:23:39 PM Z
I can speculate: Films labeled "Recording Film" is this day
and age are usually meant to be exposed in a laser imaging
device. The size of your film suggests it was for output of
newspaper pages on an imagesetter, which would then be
contact-printed to make a printing plate. Imagesetters often
use a Helium-Neon laser. Beyond that I can't speculate about
why it behaves the way it does.
David Foy
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Gerling [mailto:keithgerling@att.net]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 2:20 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
Subject: RE: Fuji Graphic film
Thanks, Sam. It seems to be a different beast altogether.
I spent some
time experimenting with this and came to the conclusion that
it is actually
quite sensitive to red and yellow light, which explains the
fogging problem
I was having. It's big - 30"x50 foot rolls, so total dark
handling is a big
problem!
Keith
-----Original Message-----
From: stwang1@bellsouth.net [mailto:stwang1@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 12:57 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Fuji Graphic film
Keith,
Sounds like a reversal "line" film to me. Try giving it a
lot of exposure
and then develop. "A lot" may mean more than the usual
darkroom amount,
since some of these are meant to be exposed by UV lights and
are yellow bug
light safe.
Most likely it is also very high contrast, so once you
determined if it is
"reversal" and at what approximate speed, you can try some
of the developers
that people have used for "lith" type of films to tame the
contrast.
Kodak made a few of this kind of film, some under the
heading of RECORDAK, I
believe. They were for microfilm in addition to the printing
industry. All
obsolete now, I'm afraid.
Sam
>
> From: Keith Gerling <keithgerling@att.net>
> Date: 2003/05/09 Fri PM 12:15:21 EDT
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Fuji Graphic film
>
> Always on the lookout for inexpensive means of enlarging
negatives, I have
> occasionally been successful in adapting graphic arts
materials (found
> cheaply at commercial printing establishments) for
darkroom use. Recently
I
> located a rather large supply of a Fuji product that has
me confused. It
is
> labeled as Fujifilm Recording Film HSR-N. This film is
not out of date,
but
> it acts strange: Exposure to light, development in Dektol
and fixing
> produces a black result. NO exposure to any light, then
development in
> Dektol and fixing STILL produces a black result. Out of
the box and into
> the fixer produces a clear result. The Fuji website
offers no information
> on this. Does anyone have a clue what this material might
be used for?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Keith
>
>
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