Re: RES: The Great Scanner debate  - round one

Ryuji, the 24" x 30' roll of orto-litho film that I
had ordered just arrived to the store. They will cut
it to 20"x25" sheets for me - will have ~ 300 sheets.
What developer do you suggest that I use to get
grain-free enlarged negatives with the smoothest
continous tone? I will reversal process the film -
according to the procedure described in Lawless /
Buffaloe articles and I have some experience with this
workflow... I have enlarged ~ 20 sheets with mixed
results. My problem was unpleasant grain in the dense
parts of the negatives. I'm using sulfuric acid /
potassium dichromate bleach and sodium sulfite
clearing bath. The sulfite is old (around 1 year) and
was in a plastic bag (knotted mouth) - do you think it
is still good? I remember it gets bad very quickly so
what else I can use to clear the film?...

TIA,
Loris.

--- Ryuji Suzuki <rs@silvergrain.org> wrote:
> From: Barry Kleider <bkleider@sihope.com>
> Subject: Re: RES: The Great Scanner debate  - round
> one
> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:33:26 -0600
> ...
> These films also give decent continuous tone in
> dilute XTOL type
> developer, nice high contrast in D-11, and very hard
> ...
Received on Mon Mar 22 11:27:03 2004