? what to do with box of Kodak Translite Sheet Film

[Denis R]

that had best if used by '54 date

10 sheets of 8x10


:confused:

 

[spoolman]

Denis:I just finished using the last of my stash of translite film.It is a translucent base with a b&w print emusion coated on both sides and was a grade #2 contrast.You can use it like any other b&w enlarging paper except the image will look like a back lit transparency only diffused.If it is that old (1954) you might try adding an anti-foggant to your developer such as a 10 % solution of Potassium Bromide or , if it available, Edwal Liquid Orthazite.

It can be toned like a b&w print and because of the textured surface it will accept hand colouring.

Hope this helps.

Doug

 

[mgb74]

Fast forward to 2014. Doing a web search for the product, I came across the above post.

I happened to look through an old Zone VI newsletter this morning. It talked about using Translite film to eliminate newtons rings when contact printing (hence the web search). You fix and wash the film (unexposed) then use it between the glass and negative.

Not sure if this stuff is still available. Hope you kept yours.

 

[GregW]

3D Anaglyphs.1 each toned red and green, then view with handmade glasses. Use some of the material to make toned lenses for the handmade glasses to view. Make the negs with a LF camera on a rail.

 

[Arklatexian]

what to do with a biox of Kodak Translite Sheet Film

Denis:I just finished using the last of my stash of translite film.It is a translucent base with a b&w print emusion coated on both sides and was a grade #2 contrast.You can use it like any other b&w enlarging paper except the image will look like a back lit transparency only diffused.If it is that old (1954) you might try adding an anti-foggant to your developer such as a 10 % solution of Potassium Bromide or , if it available, Edwal Liquid Orthazite.

It can be toned like a b&w print and because of the textured surface it will accept hand colouring.

Hope this helps.

Doug

I once bought a box of 11 x 14 to use in making "paper negatives", the old kind, not what you folks call "paper negatives" now. You put the negative you wanted to print in the enlarger and made a positive on the translite. Then contact printed the positive on to another sheet of translite which yielded a negative. This negative could be contact printed onto photographic paper for the final print. Ansel would not have liked the final print because it resembled late 19th and early 20th century "pictorial" work. Because you could retrouch almost each step of the way, you had tremendous control over the final print of which you could make any number of copies. Using the translite was my idea, at least to me. Earlier, people used a Dassonville thin base paper to do what I wanted to do with the Translite. I got too busy to go into the darkroom about then so I never got further than the first positive.....I also hope this helps......Regards