Re: Large paper negative step wedge

Porter's Camera Supply -- www.porters.com -- has them. They're a
great resource for all sorts of quirky little photo items. Big fat
catalog available and one online, too.

>John,
>
>Paper step wedges (called reflection step wedge instead of transmission step
>wedge which we normally use) are availabe commercially. They are used when
>shooting when shooting paste-up for negatives for printing. Now that this
>step has gone digital, it might be harder to find, but I believe Stouffer
>makes them.
>
>Or as you said, you can make one easily.
>
>Dave S
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <Grafist@aol.com>
>To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
>Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:52 AM
>Subject: Large paper negative step wedge
>
>
>> Hi Folks, Shortly, I will be giving my 12 X 16 camera its first run with
>> paper negative material. Having worked with 10 X 8 paper negs in the past
>I have
>> found few problems with exposure. Lucky guess work, I guess.
>>
>> It has occured to me that Jose Ortiz Echague was reported to have used
>paper
>> negs throughout his career to produce his vaste number of prints in Direct
>> Carbon. I dont suppose he ever used a step wedge. Just trial and error
>with him,
>> but I suspect that someone, somewhere has heard of using this very useful
>> tool with balancing their prints from paper negatives.
>> I dont imagine that such a thing is available from mass
>produced
>> sources. So,guess I will have to make one myself. Seem to remember that
>Dr.Max
>> Thorek wrote something on paper negatives in one of the American Annual of
>> Photography year books back in the thirties.
>> Also, I believe Andrew Sanderson has quite recently had a book
>> published dealing with paper neg work. Has anyone seen this?
>>
>> John Grocott- photographist
>>
>>
Received on Thu Mar 25 09:58:32 2004