George L Smyth wrote:
>
> You could use Orthochromatic film. I use this on occasion and develop it with
> dilute Dektol. This gives me a large negative that is easily printed.
>
George:
What exactly is orthochromatic film? What size do they come in (e.g.
11x14?) What is the ISO? When you say you use dilute Dektol, could you
be more precise about dilution, temperature, time.
Sorry to ask these specifics, but it may come handy when I try to use my
11x14 camera.
BTW, I've played around with 35mm Kodalith film acouple of years ago on
my standard 35mm camera and got some very dramatic effects. I've
experimented with processing - using a Kodak Grey card - until I got
about four zones on the film (if you're familiar with zone system,
standard film will give you ten zones of shade, moving from black to
white, whereas kodalith will normally give you only pure white or pure
black). I can't remember the actual dilution and times I used but I
could pull them out from burried files. The difficulty with using
Kodalith was the very low ISO (it turned out to be best at ISO 3, which
means very long exposures on a regular camera and quite unpractical with
pinhole at f-126...
Best wishes,
Guy Glorieux
Received on Wed Oct 11 16:31:32 2000
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