Re: Digital negatives with UV light.

Sam,

Pulled the string on the light and pulled it again..In..about...250ms :)

Thanks for the info,
Alex

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:22:41 -0500, Sam Wang <stwang@mail.nctv.com> wrote:
> Alex,
>
> Digital negatives work just fine printed on silver/gelatin paper. Color palette may be different, as well as curve adjustments. And you'll learn to be meticulous about eliminating dust, since silver papers could be unforgiving.
>
> I would use a regular light bulb, or enlarger, instead of the UV light though. How did you get 1/250th second exposure from your UV light?
>
> Sam
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >After a few glasses of some good Cabernet I went into my darkroom and
> >had all my cyano stuff setup and thought to myself "what would happen
> >if I contact printed a digital negative onto regular RC fibre using my
> >BL tubes?". So I tried it, hanging the light about 6" above the image
> >with an exposure of (about) 1/250 and the results came out quite
> >interestingly after development. The image was a little blurry as
> >the negative wasn't perfectly flat on the paper but otherwise the
> >image came out quite ethereal and interesting. This was a color
> >digital negative, even.
> >
> >Just curious if anyone has done stuff like this and what their results
> >were..it looks cool enough to experiment again.
> >
> >Happy New Year!
> >
> >--
> >Cheers,
> >Alex Swain (fo)
> >http://www.zoom.sh
>
>

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Cheers,
Alex Swain (fo)
http://www.zoom.sh