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>Gini,
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>You can get a lot of detail out of paper negatives, much more than the
>gum process itself is capable, and they work great for monochrome gum.
>However, exposure times are very long, which is a greater inconvenience
than
>sharpness.
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>What you might consider is this.Separate your slides onto 35mm B&W
negative
>material. You could separate and develop the negatives by reversal to
give
>you positives, and then go from there to your inexpensive litho film
as
>negatives. Or you could go two steps with regular processing. Either
way
>it would not be very time consumning because you could make a lot of
>35mm separations at one time.This would be a piece of cake with a
inexpensive
>slide copier.
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>Sandy
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Sandy,
What you've suggested *is* a possibility. I've got the slide
copier, so there wouldn't be any additional investment. My concern of
course is image degregation. But it might be worth a try.
Thankx,
Gini