Re: [Leica] Re: making contact prints

["David Medley" <dmedley@whidbey.net>]

I just sent  a note before reading this one......obviously this was a common
thing in some circles. When I was doing this in the early 60's I believe I
was the only one in Portland, Oregon that would deliver contacts that large.
Annnndd.......you are right. They were not 11x14 but 16x20. I heard not long
ago that the studio is still in operation in NW Portland. (Although the
owner must be in his later 80's and not doing a lot of work.)  Mark Rabiner
should go out on a midnight raid and try and find that old Elwood. <g>

Cheers,
David Medley
Whidbey Is.   WA
USA
dmedley@whidbey.net
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- ----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 4:35 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: making contact prints


> I know a photographer that loved to use 35mm but hated contact sheets. You
> have to admit that even with a good loupe, they are pretty ridiculous.
>
> His solution was to make 16x20 proof sheets. He had an old Elwood 8x10
> enlarger. He put his 35mm neg strips in the 8x10 glass negative carrier
and
> made a 16x20 print. His 35mm proofs looked like Medium Format proofs. His
> customers liked them also.
>
> Jim
>
>
> At 11:33 AM 4/19/00 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> >I hate showing contacts to clients!!. It reduces me, the photographer to
the
> >status of hovering 3 D copier.
> >"Shoot the thing from every single angle and we'll figure out which shot
> >inadvertently came out with some class." is the quote in effect.
> >Some of the very high end people are able to circumvent this and just
show the
> >client some selected proofs.
> >I've been able to pull this off on occasion myself.
> >Especially with slides. I never have them numbered for partially that
reason.
> >They see 8; the see 10 they wanna know what happened to 9.
> >I bring in a page or even a half page of slides and they can often be
happy.
> >It's not what you shoot but what gets printed that counts!!!!!.
> >They inevitability pick out some inane shot and then they make sure my
name
> >appears on it.
> >It's not my fault I didn't do it! They made me do it! They never believe
me.
> >I wasn't there when I shot that!
> >I don't recall shooting that!
> >Where they got that from I'll never know!!!
> >All excuses for loosing control of your work.
> >Showing contacts are like hanging up your dirty underwear outside before
you
> >put
> >them through the wash.
> >Mark Rabiner
>