Of possible interest...

["Tim Rudman" <tim.rudman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I had the following e-mail yesterday which I thought might be of interest to
the group in view of various postings about Rodinal recently - also the
thread on contrast issues that came up
Tim
PS you might be interested in his page too.

(although I don't often post to the group, I do follow it with interest as
IR has been a special interest of mine for some 30 yrs (ouch) )
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----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Rudman <tim.rudman@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Chris Woodhouse <chris.woodhouse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 14 June 1999 09:34
Subject: Re: Lith look alikes


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris Woodhouse <chris.woodhouse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <tim.rudman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 13 June 1999 21:48
> Subject: Lith look alikes
>
>
> > Tim,  I had a happy accident last week.  I grossly overexposed a Kodak
> High
> > Speed Infrared film and then developed in Rodinal.  The negative was
> almost
> > entirely black, all the tones were pushed up into the shoulder of the
film
> > curve.
> >
> > Not to be defeated, I slapped the Analyser on it and printed a high key
> > effect at Grade 4 for about 4 minutes.  Wonderful subtlety with very
well
> > defined gritty grain.  Many people at my club thought the Sepia version
> was
> > a lith print.
> >
> > The outcome of this happy mistake is that I can take a range of Kodak
HIE
> > exposures and choose the one whose contrast matches my fixed grade
Kentona
> > / Art Classic papers simply by using the shoulder round-off as a
contrast
> > modifier.
> > best regards Chris Woodhouse MEng
> > email chris.woodhouse@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Darkroom support homepage   www.users.zetnet.co.uk/ktphotonics
> >
>
> A few points Chris,
>
> -Rodinal is famed, or notorious according to your view, for producing very
> heavy grain on 35mm HSI
>
> -I have used the compressed range of mistreated HSI a different way, using
> under development to give a thin grainless neg. which prints delicate high
> key with a suitable subject on a high contrast. My use was with pre-dev
> bleaching on IMG @ G5 to give bright luminous highlights against soft mid
> greys and low values with no blacks.
>
> From your description I would guess that the similarity to a lith print
> would fall short of the soft creamy grain free highlights alongside the
> higher contrast grain in the lower tones?? ("soft in the H/Ls - hard in
the
> shadows" etc)
>
> Tim
>
>

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