[Leica] Platinum Printing

[s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)]

Lately, I've been in the market for a Nuarc flip top plate burner.  
But I think I might of missed my window when the print shops were  
dumping theirs. It's the only way to do platinum contact printing.

Slobodan Dimitrov
Studio G-8, AGCC
http://sdimitrovphoto.com



On Aug 6, 2005, at 10:50 PM, dfinch847@aol.com wrote:

> "Platinum printing is a contact printing only process.  If you shoot
> 35mm, and there are those that do, you will have to make an enlarged
> negative of the size you wish your print to be.   Somewhere I have
> read, perhaps on the net, not sure, of people who make big contact
> negatives on a high-quality inkjet printer on clear acetate film.  I
> would think this would be the way to go, if you want to shoot with
> minature films."
>
> I dunno. I not sure I'd want to mess around trying to blow up a  
> 35mm negative into order to make a platinum contact print. You need  
> a really tight, sharp, contrasty negative to get the benefits of  
> platinum printing, which is all about tone rendition. I suspect  
> that even the best Leica lenses can't put enough tonal data on 35mm  
> film to yield a suitable 8x10 digital negative. Of course, with  
> Photoshop you can interpolate the hell out of any image and add  
> whatever tonal data you want. If you have an artist's eye, you can  
> paint by numbers and make a very pretty picture indeed. But it  
> won't be real.
>
> DSF
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