Re: Negatives

[dsbryant@telocity.com]

You may want to try Badger Graphics or Darkroom Inovations, they may have this film in stock (and maybe not considering the SO requirements Kodak requires). I also spoke to a photographer here in Atlanta that orders 5x7 TMAX 400 from Calumet.

Good luck,

Don Bryant

On Thu, 16 August 2001, ericawd wrote:

> 
> I recently subscribed to this list and have waded through much of the
> archives before posting.  I also have read the recent discussion of digital
> negatives and I have some questions which I'm sure have been addressed but I
> can not seem to find.
> 
> I have been gum printing off and on since college (quite a few years ago).
> Recently I have been working on 3-color.  I had found a handout from a class
> which included a recipe for manual separations using Super XX Pan film.
> That film was no longer made even when I began doing 3 color so I
> substituted T Max 100.  After much experimentation I have been able to make
> separations that are quite suitable for my purposes.  I have been working in
> 5X7 and if I liked the image enlarging it to 11X14.  I found out recently
> that in order to get 100 sheets of 5X7 TMX you must order 31-100 sheet
> boxes.  (The same holds true of 11X14.)  Needless to say that is cost
> prohibitive.  I spoke with Kodak and they recommended Ektapan.  It is also
> 100 ASA and can be bought a box at a time. Kodak sent me the data sheet and,
> for instance, the development times are significantly different.  I know
> what the negatives should look like for my purposes, (I have no
> densitometer.), but I know I will have to do some fairly major adjusting.  I
> am also afraid Kodak will discontinue that film about the time I get it just
> right.  I don't want to be continually re-inventing the wheel.
> 
> I have been reading the posts about digital negatives and am not sure if
> this is the way to go.  I have a Epson 1200 printer.  I have tried  to make
> some negatives from monochrome photos using transparency medium bought at
> Office Depot.  The results have been fairly disappointing.  I have not been
> able to find in the archives what the best material to make enlarged
> negatives.
> 
> I have read the posts about the 1160 but can not find what the ultimate
> advantage is to it and the thought of buying yet another piece of hardware
> quite frankly leaves me cold.
> 
> Please forgive my ignorance on not being up to speed on this in advance.  I
> have been working here on this little island called Memphis.  I had no idea
> that there were so many others working with gums.  Any help or suggestions
> would be appreciated.
> 
> Candace Spearman