Pictorico White Film, somewhat cheap on Ebay

[menglert]

Hello,

I wasn't sure where to post this really, but here seems best. Those of you who use Pictorico White Film, for silver digital negatives, it has been running at fairly low prices at Ebay lately. Olympus has been posting the auctions for 24 hours the past few weeks, each day.

8.5x11 40shts, around $20-25
11x17 20shts, around $20-25
13x19 20shts, around $25-30

These are estimates I'm giving after watching the auctions for about a week. I have no affiliation with the auctions being held, but only wanted to inform other members making digital negatives for silver ect.

Regards,
Martin

[kees]

Hello,

I wasn't sure where to post this really, but here seems best. Those of you who use Pictorico White Film, for silver digital negatives, it has been running at fairly low prices at Ebay lately.

While looking for this white film, I also found an US ebay store that sells Agfa CopyJet/SelectJet at very reasonable prices (less then here in europe). In fact I think the sheets they sell are cut from the cheaper SelectJet Rolls. CopyJet isn't even available in 8x10 sheets.




kees

[BobD]

Isn't this product opaque? How can it be used for negs?

BobD

[Don Bryant]

While looking for this white film, I also found an US ebay store that sells Agfa CopyJet/SelectJet at very reasonable prices (less then here in europe). In fact I think the sheets they sell are cut from the cheaper SelectJet Rolls. CopyJet isn't even available in 8x10 sheets.




kees

That's a pretty good price. How does it compaer to Pictorico OHP?

Thanks,

Don Bryant

[Don Bryant]

Isn't this product opaque? How can it be used for negs?

BobD

It is opaque to UV light not white light. It is used for printing on enlarging spedd silver gelatin papers.

Don Bryant

[wiz]

Isn't this product opaque? How can it be used for negs?

BobD

It's translucent, and knocks your exposure down a couple of stops. This can be good for fast silver gelatin papers where a clear film negative may need something annoying like a 3 second exposure, and the white film gets you up to 20 seconds. It's "bad" for slow platinum papers, where an annoying five minute exposure becomes an interminable 30 minutes.

And because you've got translucent material between your light source and ink, scratches on the back side of the media don't show in the print, just front side scratches, So you get 1/2 the scratches you would with transparent film.

All this aside, I prefer transparent film for all processes...

[BobD]

Thanks -- makes sense.

BobD