tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957150598868482631.post8986868182087442847..comments2024-03-23T13:56:46.914+00:00Comments on North East Liberties: A beginner's view of lith printingMichael McNeillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11247145157454447816noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957150598868482631.post-60027265141086924612017-03-07T17:15:26.200+00:002017-03-07T17:15:26.200+00:00Thanks Roy always appreciate you taking the time t...Thanks Roy always appreciate you taking the time to stop by and comment so constructively.Michael McNeillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11247145157454447816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957150598868482631.post-91036061068114010542017-03-07T12:44:56.846+00:002017-03-07T12:44:56.846+00:00Haha, Michael. These days I actually find it a lot...Haha, Michael. These days I actually find it a lot more convenient to just shave the top of my head instead of having to look at the more or less constant degrading of the situation up there. <br /><br />The best norwegian place to go looking for film and stuff will usually be a company called Fotoimport. They got a decent line of products for guys like me, but everything is not in stock all of the time. They seem to have had Fotospeed's lith kit in at some point, but they're out of it right now. I might just pick up the phone some day soon to check when they might get it on the top of their shelves again. <br /><br />Been out of blogland for a few days since I came back home, but you may read about it in the usual place some time soon :)<br /><br />I really love these lith posts!! And great examples and prints go with them as well, as expected. Roy Karlsvikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805712465787215923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957150598868482631.post-44230089193656470392017-03-01T21:55:21.482+00:002017-03-01T21:55:21.482+00:00Huh, so you still have hair, Roy? Lucky you...min...Huh, so you still have hair, Roy? Lucky you...mine went south a long time ago :)<br /><br />Yeh, I know it's maybe beginner's infatuation and all that, but I'm liking the lith thing a lot. Perhaps it's the fact that there seem to be a boundless number of endpoints you can get to from one negative, depending on what route you choose to do down. Well, that's the way it seems to me at the minute, when I don't really know what I'm doing. Of course you can just do something and admire the outcome, however it turns out, but maybe sometime in the future I'll be able to look at a neg and think, 'Ah yes, I want that to go *there*' and then execute the process appropriately. But that's a long way down the line. For now, all I know it's a great way to play and have a helluva lot of fun. <br /><br />Fotospeed do a lith kit too - I haven't used it, but Bob Carnie uses it, so it must be good. Check out the Moersch website - there's a ton of information and some lovely example work there. Moersch do a big line in toning chemicals, too, by the way. They are going to be getting some of my UK pounds soon, converted at a horrible rate to Euros, that is :( <br /><br />Just normal fixer is fine - I use Ilford Rapid Fix 1+9. <br /><br />I'll say more about papers in the next post. We have some stuff going on here tomorrow, local elections and all that, but I hope to get the next post out soon, since I'm on a roll with this thing. <br /><br />Norwegian online chemicals pusher is a great turn of phrase - hopefully the web-bots can distinguish context between one form of chemical pusher and another ;) Michael McNeillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11247145157454447816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957150598868482631.post-64284024795280877272017-03-01T19:11:26.913+00:002017-03-01T19:11:26.913+00:00OK! Thanks a lot for that one post, Michael.
Addi...OK! Thanks a lot for that one post, Michael. <br />Addictive, huh? Not exactly what I seem to need right now to be honest, but I feel like I just need to get home and see if I got any lithable papers around the house somewhere. <br />I just checked my norwegian online chemicals pusher, but they were out of lith printing stuff. They might be just that the next year for all I know, so I might need to put in an order from over the sea at some point. Have you tried other stuff than the Moersch Easy Lith thing, or would it be more or less the same goo in a different package you think?<br />And since things obviously really seem to happen during the fixing stage, are we talking about some magic fix here or is any old normal fix just as good as anything else?<br />As you might understand, this is untread grounds for me. Hope to give it a go some day. Would be real fun, as you seem to get someting out of it even though the whole process seem to live it's own life when it comes to repeatability and things like that. I've seen younger people than you saying the same thing, by the way. <br />At least my hair turned gray years ago anyway, so I don't mind a bit of hassle with the old lith process... I think.Roy Karlsvikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805712465787215923noreply@blogger.com