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RE: Digital negs and Platinum
>Hello Dan,
>
>I understand you scan your neg's. After that you probably use photoshop or
>equal to get the right contrast curves for platinum..... BUT
>
>-By what medium do you print the 12x18 neg's. With a laser printer?? color,
>black and white? and on what kind of media (overhead film?).
>
>I would like to know since grafic film is getting harder and harden to
>obtain and at very high costs. I am thinking more and more about trying to
>make my elarged neg's digitally.
>Sometimes i read the messages in this newsgroup and sometimes it all sounds
>very complicated, especially the printing of the enlarged neg's
>
>thanks for all info.
>
>Greetings from holland
>Gerard de Vrueh
>
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>Van: FDanB@aol.com [mailto:FDanB@aol.com]
>Verzonden: dinsdag 7 maart 2000 14:19
>Aan: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
>Onderwerp: Re: Digital negs and Platinum
>
>
>Hi Richard,
>
>I'm a 35mm shooter (exclusively for now) and with a desktop scanner
>(Polaroid SprintScan 4000) take the negatives to 12" X 18" with no
>interpolation. Of course, just as every 35mm neg won't make a good
>PROJECTION enlargement to that size, it pays to start with a good
>negative. >;^D
>
>Good news for 35mm shooters who are platinum printers!
>
>Dan
>
>www.danburkholder.com
>
>You said in your message...
>
>>How large could one go from a 35mm neg digital/platinum before things got
>>ugly?
>
Gerard,
graphic film hard to get? We in Europe have even better access to it than
most Americains... Try Agfa, AM Nederland (Rijswijk), Wifac,... Price
should be around 15 Hfl per square meter.
Prices in Belgium are even cheaper...
greetings,
Carl
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