[Leica] RE: (Leica) RE: 35,MF,LF

["Lee, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Lee@hrcc.on.ca>]

There are methods to make large negatives for contact printing using scanned
images and ink jet printers. Apparently this works quite well for 4x5 negs.
No need to lug that 8x10 around if you don't have to.  There is even a
source book for this: Dan Burkholder "Making digital negatives for contact
pritning" or something like it. Barnes and Noble has it.  He has a web site
as well.  I have ordered the book and soon will have the equipment necessary
for turning my 4X5 negs into contact prints. 

For platinum and other non-silver printers out there, there is a list and
website for us.

http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg/photo/faq.html#REFERENCES


Jonathan Lee
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	EDMONDS/PIE/TomF  On Behalf Of Tom Finnegan
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 27, 1999 12:45 PM
> To:	'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> Subject:	(Leica) RE: 35,MF,LF
> 
> 	Jonathan said:> 
> 	> The reason I would like to do LF would be to make platinum contact
> prints
> 	> which appear qualitatively different than silver, and have toyed
> with the
> 	> idea of getting an 8x10 camera, how I would explain that to my
> wife I
> 	> haven't yet figured out. Until now I've been able to justify the
> purchase of
> 	> new lenses by explaining that it will enable me to take yet better
> pictures
> 	> of the kids, but an 8x10! how do you handle that one?
> 	> 
> 	> Jonathan Borden
> 
> I have a inexpensive 4x5 field camera that I like to use once in a while,
> and I keep thinking that I would like to try some platinum/palladium
> printing since I don't have an enlarger. However, every time I start
> thinking about doing platinum prints I also start thinking about how nice
> it would be to have an 8x10 camera. After I mull that around in my head a
> bit I start to think it would be even nicer to have an 11x14 camera, and
> just think what kind of great workout I'd get if I was hauling a 20x24
> camera around! Sanity slowly returns once I start looking at the cost of
> cameras, film, holders, lenses, monster tripods etc...I would definately
> have a difficult time justifying the cost considering the small amount of
> use my current 4x5 gets.
> 
> I think I need to really refine my 4x5 work, maybe try a little platinum
> printing. If I could produce some really nice portraits of my daughter,
> I'm sure my wife would be much more tolerant of me getting a larger
> camera.
> 
> Mark added:
> 	But its the lens that is what is really going to set you back. Of
> course you
> 	could sell your enlarger.
> 	If you think of it some of the most successful photography of kids
> are done with
> 	the 8x10. 
> 	Of course you may not be planning to shoot these kids naked and not
> planning on
> 	selling the prints for $10,000 each on the serious gallery market.
> But if those
> 	images weren't viable they wouldn't sell for quite so much.
> 	Sometimes the most obvious piece of equipment for a job is the least
> obvious.
> 	I'm envious of your plans for platinum prints. 
> 	I wonder what someone would pay for an 8x10 palatum print of their
> kid if you
> 	walk in the door with one? You'd get a blank check I'm sure. Just
> show your wife
> 	one print and you are even I would think, make a print of her too!
> You could
> 	creat a sensation in your family! Whose going to not have that
> print?!
> 	Mark Rabiner
> 
> Speaking of Sally Mann, I noticed in the recent issue of View Camera that
> in her current work she is using old, uncoated, cheapo beater lenses on
> her 8x10 for a ethereal, dreamstate kind of look. So maybe I wouldn't have
> to go out and buy a nice new multi-thousand dollar Schneider.
> 
> To stay somewhat on topic, I always use my M6 alongside the 4x5. I find
> the M6 viewfinder and preview lever invaluable in helping to place the
> tripod and frame the picture.
> 
> Tom Finnegan
> Seattle
>