Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would also try enlarging onto Kodalith Type 3 film. Tech Pan is not the way to go. This is available in various sheet sizes, and maybe (still) 35mm. I used to spool some up, and shoot it in my M4's and 5's in the 70's. Developed by inspection under a red safelight (it's orthochromatic) you could easily see what you were getting, and this was important because latitude is non-existent with such a high contrast film. Maybe 1/10 stop plus or minus. You essentially adjusted for exposure by length of development. This works very well for pictorial purposes, and you can get the exact effect you want by yanking it out of the developer and washing it fast and fixing it. For its intended use (graphic arts reproduction) optimum quality is achieved with optimum exposure, but for this use it didn't matter very much. Speed is/was around 0.3 ISO, so a tripod is quite handy. The film was cheap, so I had a 100' roll lying around for the odd stuff and just spooled off a chunk when needed. I probably still have some in my darkroom from the 70's, and I bet it still works just as well. Aging isn't a problem with this stuff. The Kodalith 2 part developer is also very cheap and quite easy to mix up, and essential to dropping out the shadows completely. - -- * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html