Re: Cyanotypes

I believe that I use the "EL" version of this film. I got it off eBay for a song, so I've got a few hundred sheets of 10X12" ready to go.

Cheers -

george

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 --- On Thu 01/20, Gordon J. Holtslander < holtsg@duke.usask.ca > wrote:
From: Gordon J. Holtslander [mailto: holtsg@duke.usask.ca]
To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:04:48 -0600
Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Cyanotypes

Hi:<br><br>I don't buy my ortho film from a camera shop. I use Kodak Camera 2000 CPG<br>film - its a lith film used in the printing industry. Any camera copy lith<br>film used in the printing industry will work. I buy it through a<br>local prepress shop. Look in your yellow-pages. I get a pack of 100 8x10<br>for aound CA$55.00. Its also avialable in much larger sizes. :)<br><br>Kodak sells their graphics arts/pre-press supplies through KPGraphics.<br>Their UK office phone # is:<br><br>United Kingdom<br>+44 1923 233-366<br><br>Gord<br><br>On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Bob wrote:<br><br>> Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:<br>> > Hi:<br>> ><br>> > I have been using ortho film in my pinhole cameras almost exclusively. My<br>> > pinhole shots are printed with cyanotype or gum usually.<br>><br>> I looked into Ortho film, but it's a tad too expensive compared to paper<br>> as it's not an item that most places stock. I went into my local pro<br>> shop as I was buying stuff from them anyway and it would have cost<br>> about £5
5 ex VAT for 25 sheets of 10"x8"; that's around $120.91<br>> assuming a $1.8709 to £1 exchange rate...<br>><br>> [snipped developer bit...]<br>><br>> > There are some other alternatives depending on what you want to try. Many<br>> > alt-process users make digital negatives -but this is tricky. You could<br>> > try scanning a paper negative and printing the scanned image on<br>> > transparency material, and use this as a negative.<br>><br>> The reason I do pinhole and want to do cyanotypes is as an alternative<br>> to digital. I sit in front of a computer all day at work, last thing I<br>> want to do in my spare time is sit infront of a computer fiddling with<br>> images...<br>><br>> > Could also try photocopying your paper negative onto a transparency and<br>> > use this as an image. This would alter the image characteristics, but it<br>> > may "work" for your image.<br>><br>> I'm not sure that the quality of the photocopier at work would be up to<br>> the task of producing anything that could happ!
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sed...<br>><br>> My cyanotype kit and paper were supposed to be turning up today; I got<br>> a phone call from Fotospeed saying they'd sent me 20 sheets of Fabriano<br>> 5 paper rather than 10 as the mill cut it slightly smaller than 10"x8"<br>> and they didn't want me to feel like I'd missed out on paper. Sounds<br>> good to me, so I think I'll just experiment with a few paper negatives<br>> that I've got and see what happens.<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>><br>> --<br>> Bob http://www.bobarnott.com/<br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> "Lager is an imitation Continental beer drunk only by refined ladies,<br>> people with digestive ailments, tourists, and other weaklings."<br>> - Munchen Süddeutsche Zeitung<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML<br>> pinhole-discussion mailing list<br>> pinhole-discussion_at_spitbite.org<b
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