Liquid Light

I am not saying all liquid emulsions are bad but i had an awful experience with vc liquid light. The way i was trying to use it seemed simple enough. Pouring on varnished glass. Worked fine and loved the result on the non vc version but the vc version was horrible to work with. Maybe its just me??

mikez said:

Worked fine and loved the result on the non vc version but the vc version was horrible to work with. Maybe its just me??

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What do you mean with "the vc version was horrible to work with"? Bad printing results... bad coating... problems during processing (lift off)?

I have never used Liquid Light. I used Rollei / Maco Black Magic VC, and besides coating and some processing issues, the final print results were OK in terms of quality of print, see the linked image in one of my previous posts in this thread. And I liked the fact I was able to control contrast reasonably well using its VC properties and adjusted filtration, versus a fixed grade emulsion, although it is not as good as true VC paper (limited to about grade 1-4 according to documentation).

I've just recently decided to coat my own paper ofr bromoils using Liquid Light and developed a couple of prints today. I obviously need to practice my coating skills, the prints were a little streaky.

Photo Engineer said:

I could troll for converts too.

I know more about this than most. But, coating on other than flat surfaces introduces DOF problems that cause blurry images. A flat surface is best.

PE

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How about using a pinhole camera?

lxdude said:

How about using a pinhole camera?

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From a pinhole camera to coated 3/D object? Like a rock? Yes that would work. Although I would say that one of the great features of LE is to be able to put an image onto non conventional surfaces, and so DOF issues and ultimate sharpness are not usually of primary importance. Lots of great examples out there.