College Student - Ortho Litho Film Questions

[aaronmichael]

That is unfortunate. What keeps you from being able to make them?

If I had my own darkroom at home then it would probably be no problem. However, the only time I get to use a darkroom is at school. It would be much easier to use the chemicals they have there to develop my film. I feel like it would be a bit of a pain to make mixtures every time I go in. When I was using paper negatives I would go out and take a photo, go back into the darkroom and develop, and then go back out and take another photo if the first one was off. Which means I'd only get a couple photos done in a class period. Not sure if they'd even allow me to be mixing my own stuff there.

Thanks for the tip about the HC-110 solution. I have a feeling I'm going to be trying various dilutions of different developers since I've gotten varying opinions from different users on here.

 

[premo]

Well, I've been using aristo ortho-lith for over twenty years with none of these problems I have been reading about. I usually metered it at asa25, packard shutter on instaneous, or if not very bright, 1/10 (click-uh as fast as you can say it). I also shot a lot of beach and harbor scenes with a Speed Graphic, and a 3 1/4 X 4 1/4 voightlaander. When I first started doing this I didn't know to expose at asa3. So, after developing for about 12 minutes in dectol 1 to 24, water rinse for a couple of minutes and then fixing and washing, all in trays I got what I was sure were too thin negs. But I printed one anyway, and surprise, surprise, it looked good. When you start developing by inspection, when you think it's done, let it develope another few minutes. I had just finished reading some english book from the 1890's that warned about pulling film out too soon. My temps were 65f. Hope this helps.

 

[JEG2]

Have these results been posted? Where? Hope to try this lith film next year.