enlarged negatives for pd.

Ken Carney (kcarney@okla.net)
Sun, 27 Jul 1997 19:19:37 -0500

I would appreciate some direction on making enlarged negs for palladium
printing. In going through my photo library I find very little on the
subject. I would like to enlarge regular b&w negs from various formats, as
well as Polaroid 35mm instant (positive b&w transparency). In checking the
Freestyle catalog, they have an ortho film for $100/50 sheets, which I'm
guessing is the Ilford ortho copy film. They also have an ortho film, much
less expensive and available in larger sheets, "similar to Kodalith III"
which is developed in an "A&B" developer.

My limited experiments to date have been with Kodak professional copy film
in HC110, which seems OK but I can't locate in sizes larger than 4x5; Kodak
SO339 which I didn't care for; and regular 8x10 TriX in HC110 which doesn't
seem to give as much tonal range as I would have thought, given its success
in the camera.

My one article is by Phil Davis, and involves use of TMax100 in Sprint
paper developer. I may give that a try also.

Any thoughts or references greatly appreciated.

--Ken Carney