Re: Cyanotypes

Hi:

I don't buy my ortho film from a camera shop. I use Kodak Camera 2000 CPG
film - its a lith film used in the printing industry. Any camera copy lith
film used in the printing industry will work. I buy it through a
local prepress shop. Look in your yellow-pages. I get a pack of 100 8x10
for aound CA$55.00. Its also avialable in much larger sizes. :)

Kodak sells their graphics arts/pre-press supplies through KPGraphics.
Their UK office phone # is:

United Kingdom
+44 1923 233-366

Gord

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Bob wrote:

> Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I have been using ortho film in my pinhole cameras almost exclusively. My
> > pinhole shots are printed with cyanotype or gum usually.
>
> I looked into Ortho film, but it's a tad too expensive compared to paper
> as it's not an item that most places stock. I went into my local pro
> shop as I was buying stuff from them anyway and it would have cost
> about £55 ex VAT for 25 sheets of 10"x8"; that's around $120.91
> assuming a $1.8709 to £1 exchange rate...
>
> [snipped developer bit...]
>
> > There are some other alternatives depending on what you want to try. Many
> > alt-process users make digital negatives -but this is tricky. You could
> > try scanning a paper negative and printing the scanned image on
> > transparency material, and use this as a negative.
>
> The reason I do pinhole and want to do cyanotypes is as an alternative
> to digital. I sit in front of a computer all day at work, last thing I
> want to do in my spare time is sit infront of a computer fiddling with
> images...
>
> > Could also try photocopying your paper negative onto a transparency and
> > use this as an image. This would alter the image characteristics, but it
> > may "work" for your image.
>
> I'm not sure that the quality of the photocopier at work would be up to
> the task of producing anything that could happily be used...
>
> My cyanotype kit and paper were supposed to be turning up today; I got
> a phone call from Fotospeed saying they'd sent me 20 sheets of Fabriano
> 5 paper rather than 10 as the mill cut it slightly smaller than 10"x8"
> and they didn't want me to feel like I'd missed out on paper. Sounds
> good to me, so I think I'll just experiment with a few paper negatives
> that I've got and see what happens.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Bob http://www.bobarnott.com/
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