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Subject: [Leica] Platinum prints?
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Sat Aug 6 14:13:27 2005
References: <6.1.0.6.2.20050729191406.06007cf8@192.168.100.42> <2e87ae4b565c8b96696612766f848dd1@ncable.net.au> <a0611042abf1a7cc5b01a@[172.16.1.34]>

I think making large digital internegatives for contact printing is an 
active
topic over on the APUG "Alternative Processes" forum.  An Epson 2200
would get one a big 11x17 negative with almost no cropping from a 135
neg or slide. Pretty cool.

Scott

Gene E. McCluney 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.
>
> Gene McCluney
>
>
>>
>>> Does anyone have experience with making platinum prints? Has anyone 
>>> try using small (e.g. 35mm) negatives enlarged (or digitally 
>>> printed), or am I nuts even to consider it? :-)
>>>
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