Liquid Emulsion

[Kev M]

Has anyone tried Fotospeed LE30 liquid emulsion?

I was talking to Fotospeed about it at Focus on Imaging and if you've not heard of it it's a liquid emulsion (think printing on paper emulsion) that you can apply to pretty much anything. The woman on that stand told me about a present she'd been given where someone had printed onto a stone.

I just wondered if anyone had any personal experience of it. I fancy the idea of printing onto things like wood and stone but I'm just wondering how difficult it is to use seeing as you can't exactly do test strip on a rock because the next rock is going to be completely different.

 

[swanseamale47]

I have used a similar product (might be the same one?) donkeys years ago, you had to coat up the object under the safe light let it dry then expose it,
Depth of field under an enlarger isn't a lot so flat-ish things work best, we also found that a strong B+W worked best and you tended to loose subtle detail in the texture of the wood or whatever, we mostly used lith film if I remember rightly.
Looked quite good and have a gimic value.