Re: Larger negatives
Chico Seay (cseay@TUblue.pa.utulsa.edu)
Fri, 12 May 95 9:52:02 CDT
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> Are you sure you have both papers' emulsion sides face to face? if not,=20
> you'll get blurry pictures. I think that you also lose on some detail=20
> using contact printing with papers.
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Yes, I am printing with the emulsions face to face. Actually
this negative is made from a pinhole camera, and for a while I thought
it was a result of the hole, but I inspected the neg one day and the
neg was uniformly "sharp." To be more specific, parts of the printed
positive are rather (surprisingly) sharp, while others fuzzed out
very very noticeably, sort of in a pinto-pony blotch pattern. I notice
that one contact printer I have seen has a flat spongy substrate.
Perhaps if I "soften" my substrate, the force of the glass may even
out over the contacting surface, yielding a non blotchy-blurry print.
Any comments? By the way, thank you for the reply, and the direct
reply stating that I CANNOT be using a KODAK paper negative because of
Kodak's emblem smathered all across the back of all its papers. :)
It's TRUE; I started with Kodak papers for the paper negs, but the
resulting positives had the Kodak emblem etched across the sky and
everything else. So I do stuff now with Ilford's MC paper, with a
contrast filter holder on the front of the camera to control neg
contrast at the point of shooting the picture!!! So Touche and Ouch
Russell!! Either you're smarter than the average Photo Bear, or you
have been ouched by the Kodak paper neg before, or both. CHEERS.
CHICO cseay@TUblue.pa.utulsa.edu