Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ernest Nitka writes: > My reaction was to my own printing. In fact i have gone away from using > mini-labs even to develop to negatives - way too many scratches. I'd > rather pay an extra $1 to have a prolab develop to negatives. But then > again the mini lab at the grocery store is run by persons with many body > piercings so the concept of a scratch here and there may be lost on them ( > now if I' ve offended anyone with many body piercings............then I've > done my job....... no I mean to say...you know what i mean) > > As far as extened exposure times printing TCN I will admit that I printed > the negs from the Xpan so i was using a 6 x7 neg. mask using 105 lens at > f/8 onto 11 x 14 sheets of FB Ilford ....... The point being I didn't > think the times were long but this is not my usual printing protocol. > > ernie G'day Ernie, You may want to reply off list - a slightly OT question, but I have been printing my X-Pan images, and wondered if you had any comments on size, mounting and display. To me, it seems I have to enlarge an X-Pan image far more than a squarer image to get the same feeling of size Alastair Firkin @ work ;-) http://www.afirkin.com http://www.familyofman2.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html