Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >