Well, there's exactly 1/32" of room under the guides. Looking more and more like 13x18.
I might try it one more time with 5x7, but I'm not likely to buy a separate batch of film just for this one holder. Anyone have an old beater 5x7 holder they want to trade for a 13x18?
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_pro...t_id=&pid=1189
If you ever want to play with that you'll be happy for that holder.
No surprise there - paper and lith film tends to follow the nominal plate sizes, so this would fit nicely in a 13x18cm holder.Originally Posted by Nick_3536
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_pro...t_id=&pid=1189
If you ever want to play with that you'll be happy for that holder.
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Ok, why would I want to use lith film? What're the pros/cons?
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Well it's cheap -) It's slow. It's ortho. It's high contrast normally.
Likely other benefits. Just pick the ones you like best.
Nice slow high contrast film ... good for still life, less useful for portraits, never tried it on landscape.
It's very useful if you want to shoot a long exposure (for instance, to erase people from a busy street scene); it's got extremely fine grain, you can develop by inspection under the same red safelight you may already use to print. It's nice for making masks and interpositives or enlarged negatives, too, it's not just for use in a camera. Get the two part Lith developer for it, and you can do neat stuff like posterization, value masks, genuine half-toning, and other stuff for which a high contrast film is useful.
If a contact print at arm's length is too small to see, you need a bigger camera. :D
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