Pictoral Usage of Kodalith 6556 type 3 High Contrast Copy and Kodak FGP

[htmlguru4242]

I just got a few rolls of film from a generous APUG member, and I'm not sure how to shoot / develop them.

The first film is Kodalith 6556 Type 3 (ortho). Any suggestions on shooting this in camera.

The other is Fine Grain positive. From what I've seen, this is an ISO 40 (about) film and development reccomendations sayu Dektol for 9 mins. Will this work?

The third fim is High Contrast Copy 5069. Judging from it's name, it doesn't sound like a great pictoral film, but maybe for copy use...

Suggestions?

 

[Jim Jones]

The first place to look for developing times is the massive developing chart. It gives a variety of developers for Kodak Tech Pan, which is a more recent version of High Contrast Copy film. HCC has long been discontinued, but has good storage qualities even at room temperatures. I like it when contrast should be increased, as in photographing clouds. Bracket your exposures until you are familiar with this film. The chart gives five minutes at 20c for Kodalith 6556, which will likely give quite high contrast. I've developed both films in print developer for high contrast.