From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 01/18/01-03:05:05 AM Z
Having gotten so many replies, and it being 3:55 AM, I take liberty of
noting to list at large that a night owl got back to me to buy the contact
frame before I had gotten offline, whenever it was, very late or very
early, according to yr point of view.
But I have a couple of further comments, for what they're worth: When I
got that frame it was HUGE, hardly anybody worked that big (& it was a
while before I got there myself, and then rolled past it). Fran's comment
that her teachers are into BIG is surely a sign of the times. In fact I
wonder if the group could get together, agree on a size, and order
together from Ginther -- if he's cutting pieces for 20 at a time, price
might well be lower. (Does someone have a website they could confer on?)
If it's something you're going to use a lot, cost of new will "amortize",
and Don Ginther (Great Basin) gets (and deserves) rave reviews. But
here's another method, which I urge all to try before rejecting it, which
costs just price of 2 sheets of plate glass:
My fluorescent strips sit on the table, bulb up. There are wooden sides
left and right, a sheet of plate glass sits on top of them (about 26" by
34 "), held in place by small molding on each side. The paper/ negative
sandwich (taped together) goes on that glass, negative down. A second
sheet of plate glass goes over that... a sheet of soft black vinyl on top
of that to block the light, then two or three, or more, gallon jugs of
paint or water or whatever. (I plan a photo of it in next P-F.) I can't
really dodge & burn, tho I do a kind of crude dodging by waving a
cardboard over the bulbs in areas I want to hold back.
Contact is EXCELLENT. Except some problems when doing test strips on very
heavy paper -- the weights don't always flatten out those little
curlicues. I'll add that since my exposures for gum are 1 to 2 minutes, it
saves a lot of opening & closing spring back.
In the meantime, sorry to disappoint, and thanks for asking...
Judy
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