Trying Lith for the first time

[jimjm]

Beautiful prints !

Thank You Guillaume! I admire your work as well.

 

[ic-racer]

I have put on some Lith printing workshops. This is a syllabus for one of them.

NE OH Gathering: July 27-28-29, 2012

We had our best gathering yet in May 2012 and three wonderful gatherings in October, August and May of 2011. We missed a few regulars and gained a few new folks. It is time again for another NE OH Gathering, to get out shooting film, come together to see recent work, climb ledges, walk the OH &...

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[Guillaume Zuili]

I have put on some Lith printing workshops. This is a syllabus for one of them.

NE OH Gathering: July 27-28-29, 2012

We had our best gathering yet in May 2012 and three wonderful gatherings in October, August and May of 2011. We missed a few regulars and gained a few new folks. It is time again for another NE OH Gathering, to get out shooting film, come together to see recent work, climb ledges, walk the OH &...

www.photrio.com

Perfect syllabus you said it all.
Few years back I got a 10 sheets 8x10 kodalith paper box. Amazing stuff.
But my favorite of all, another kodak paper, is Opal. Insanely beautiful.

 

[bedrof]

Do you have any Fortezo and Bromofort tips? I think I had an available couple big boxes of the latter. Didn't experiment much as these appear to be slow (very high contrast, no color), within the limited parameters I have tested. IIRC, used to do a lot of 10A+10B+980ml Moersch Easylith; hot, and for just a few (3-4) prints.
Managed to try a few scavenged sheets of Polywarmtone and oh, that is a beautiful paper in Lith for portraiture.

Fortezo (white package) starts in Moersh lith with no extra efforts. Older Bromofort (yellow package) wants water bath before developer and a stronger and warmer solution (sometimes I make new dev midway). Bromofort in white packages though rather hard to find, didn't resist to lith in any considerable way. It takes 5-7 min in standard dilution of Moersh lith to a snatch point.