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Fotospeed: Cyanotype, Lith, Retouching, Salt Printing, Photo Dyes & Toners

Fotospeed Antique Dye Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Argyrotype Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Blue Toner BT20 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Brush Cleaner MKS50 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Color Print Brightener CSP100 Technical Data MSDS  
Fotospeed Copper/Red Toner RT20 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Cyanotype Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Film Cleaner FC50 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Film Developer FD10Dev Technical Data MSDS  
Fotospeed Fotomask MK50 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Gold Toner AU20 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Lith Developer LD20 Instructions MSDS
Fotospeed Liquid Emulsion LE30 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Mono RA4 Kit Technical Data MSDS  
Fotospeed Odorless Stop Bath SB50 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Palette Toner Kit Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Rapid Fixer FX20 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Rinse Aid RA50 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Salt Printing Kit Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Selenium Toner SLT20 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Sepia Toner (Traditional) ST10 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Sepia Toner (Odorless Variable) ST20 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Varigrade Machine Developer CD11 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Varigrade Machine Fixer CF41 Technical Data MSDS
Fotospeed Wash Aid WA50 Technical Data MSDS

Fotospeed offers a variety of toning, alternative processing and retouching kits for creative photography. These easy-to-use products provide an introduction to many different treatments of traditional photographic printing, as well as allowing practitioners the chance to work with historic processes.


Toners

All the classics are here: Copper/Red and Blue for color effects, Sepia (traditional and odorless) for creating old-time variable warm brown tones, and Gold & Selenium for increasing print depth and archival protection.

Alternative Processes

Argyrotype is a variation on other brown image processes such as Kallitype and Van Dyke. For stunning antique-style prints on fine art paper

Cyanotype is perhaps the most popular alternative process and a great introduction into sun printing. Producing beautiful cyan to blue tones on watercolor fine art paper through the use of a contact negative.

Salt printing is a 19th century process requiring exposure of a contact negative to UV/sunlight. Practiced by photographers such as William Henry Fox Talbot, salt prints have the contrast and detail of modern silver-gelatin prints, but are enhanced by a unique old-world quality

Lith Printing

By combining certain papers with a lith developer you can produce images with gritty shadows, delicate highlights and subtle tones varying from brown to black to purple-pink. Lith prints have an artistic quality which adds genuine character to the right image and are ideal for exhibition.

Retouching Dyes

For local manipulation of the print, these dyes allow for errors to be disguised, scratches to be filled and color to be added. The B&W Retouch Kit includes bleach for removal of black spots and black and grey dyes for disguising white spots. The 11 color Fotodyes are suitable for any emulsion and come with a reducer for improved control. Dyes can be diluted to exactly match any requirement.