Michael, I would love that very much, but please contact me before hand because I am buried in my darkroom, and if you make a random stop I most likely will not climb out of the darkness to greet you.Originally Posted by Michael Kadillak
My contact info is on my website at www.stephenwillard.com.
Drew, once again you have been very helpful. I will be placing an order for a few boxes of FP4, and I have lots HC-110 around. Where do you get 1% benzotriazole? The more more neutral gray the final mask is the better I like it.
Sounds like a plan. I will know when I am coming up to your area a week in advance.
I make contrast masks the old fashioned way - lith film in normal film developer. Pure gray with absolutely no color cast.
Stephen - just buy powder benzotriazole from Formulary or whoever, and dissolve
10g into a liter of water. Jim - the significant advantage of masks on pan film is that you can make color corrections with contrast filters, just like general shooting.
Lith film is good for lith masks and sometimes for black and white film masking,
but generally isn't panchromatic (Tech Pan was), and in the case of color neg masking, would be difficult to develop to a very low gamma. Unless you know
some secret I don't, lith films fog up at very low levels of contrast. Color negs are
especially fussy.
what about pre-flashing lith film and developing it for full gray-scale rather than 1/2 tone like usual?
might help with lowering contrast...
but I've never done it
-Dan
Daniel - same two problems. Lith film is vaguely ortho (more blue than green sensitive), so will seriously skew the pallette toward one end of the spectrum. And
for masking work you need to be able to get a reasonably clean curve way down around what would typcially be an N minus four gamma - whole different ballgame
than conventional film use. You also need to "see through" the orange mask already
present on color neg film - this is something ortho litho film is inherently incapable of doing.
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