RE: sheet film v. ortho film

Brad -

"Regular" sheet film has the advantage of rendering the scene properly, whereas ortho film will not properly reproduce the reds and oranges. OTOH, ortho film can be handles with the darkroom lights on and is less expensive than panchromatic film.

Personally, I use panchromatic film when shooting in the 4X5 size, but when I increase to a larger size I go with orthochromatic film, primarily because of the cost. With ortho film in the larger sizes you will not need any special equipment, as you can just use the pans you use to process your paper.

BTW, if you do go the ortho route, toss the development instructions you get from the box. Ortho film is meant to be developed to black/clear with no gray gradations. I've used dilute Dektol (1+10 - 1+20) and Rodinal with success, and there are numerous formulas out there that will work just fine.

Cheers -

george

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 --- On Sun 05/02, brad isaacs < p_bateman27@yahoo.ca > wrote:
From: brad isaacs [mailto: p_bateman27@yahoo.ca]
To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 11:47:11 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [pinhole-discussion] sheet film v. ortho film

hi,<br><br>regarding my last post regarding sheet film developing<br>tanks, my real dilemma is whether i should go into<br>working with sheet film or ortho film. they both seem<br>to have their pros and cons but i don't have the<br>experience to really know. ortho film would be very<br>easy to cut, load and process but is more difficult to<br>get. sheet film is easy to get but a little more<br>complicated to use, plus i'd need to get a tank. would<br>one produce better images than the other? i guess that<br>would be my deciding factor...<br><br>brad<br><br> <br><br><br>______________________________________________________________________ <br>Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca<br>_______________________________________________<br>Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML<br>pinhole-discussion mailing list<br>pinhole-discussion_at_spitbite.org<br>FAQ at http://spitbite.org/pinhole-discussion/list.html<br>

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