Re: Larger negatives

Tomi Knuutila (tomknuu@silmu.cc.jyu.fi)
Sun, 14 May 1995 12:21:08 +0300

On Sat, 13 May 1995, Judy Seigel wrote:

>
> As for getting good contact, answers from the list more or less parallel
> my experience, except I'll add that an RC paper lies flatter, so if you
> can BRING yourself to print on RC, you should have less trouble contacting.
> My prints were all on doubleweight fibre base, however, and I didn't get
> good contact larger than 8x10 until I bit the bullet and bought a vacuum

snip

> Another help is a glycerine bath after final wash for your fibre based
> print (if someone asks I'll look up the proportion, maybe 1 to 20).
> Another help is flatten the print in drymount press right before exposing.

Isn't it true, however, that on fiber papers part of the emulsion lies
inside the paper, and that might blur the image, no matter how flat the
print is?

tomi knuutila tomknuu@silmu.jyu.fi