IIRC some guys used it to make contrast masks as well. --- Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > >From: janet ness <nessj@xxxxxxx> > >Sent: Apr 30, 2007 8:48 PM > >To: pure-silver <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Subject: [pure-silver] What is this old film? > > > >At a camera sale last weekend I bought a box of 4x5 Kodak > Direct Duplicating SO-015 film. Can I use this film to make > enlarged negatives? Can it be used under a safelight, > although the box says "only in total darkness." Can it be > developed in Dektol? The film is dated Feb. 1975. It may be > useless, but it was cheap. > > > >Janet Ness > > I am away from my references but I believe this is a > direct positive film working on the basis of being pre-fogged > to the degree that the desired exposure drives it into the > reversal zone of the characteristic curve. I think it was > developed in a normal active developer like Dektol. I may have > a data sheet for it. I will look when I get home. > I have no idea of how stable the stuff is, you will have > to test it to find out. The data sheet will have exposure > information in it. It will also have data on spectral > sensitivity and whether a safelight can be used. > > > > > > -- > Richard Knoppow > dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Los Angeles, CA, USA > ============================================================================================================= > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and > logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password > you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.