Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/02

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: Landscapes Advice
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 10:21:19 -0800

Hi Gary,

I make unsharp masks, as described in "Complete Guide to Cibachrome
Printing" by Peter Krause and Henry Shull. ISBN 0-89586-176-3 . It may no
longer be available however. Anyway... I'll write-up a description sometime
over the weekend and e-mail it privately to you.

Jim


At 10:05 PM 1/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
>> From: Jim Brick 
>> 
>> I print Cibachrome (Ilfochrome Classic Glossy) prints. Many times
>requiring
>> a contrast mask.> 
>> If you are careful, and do everything correctly, you can print stunning
>> 16x20's.
>> 
>Hi Jim - I haven't been posting much lately because I've been too busy
>printing - Cibachrome 16x20's in fact! They are Leica Northcoast
>landscapes, to be hung in all the rooms at the new Holiday Express being
>built by the airport. Sort of a "gateway to the redwoods" theme for the
>hotel. The hotel owners want one of my Leica aerial images as the cover for
>their brochure, too. Am also building a new camera platform for a Cessna
>182, now that the Coast Guard helicopter flights are finished. Should be
>flying with the Hasselblads again in about two weeks on the aerial mapping
>project. 
>
>Anyway, are you making masks for 35mm slides? I've seen masks for larger
>size transparencies. How do you do it for the little Leica images? I have
>printed a few images where a contrast reducing mask would sure have been
>helpful.
>
>Regards
>Gary Todoroff - Tree LUGger
>