>Justin > >I do this trick. I cut the negatives in half, to make >long skinny negs (about 5" x 2"), and I then print >them with a glass neg carrier and a home made mask. I >made the mask out of a sheet of 4x5 film, exposed to >daylight, then processed to result in a black sheet of >film. This way, my mask thickness matches the >negative thickness. > >FWIW, I do this masking trick for a bunch of formats >for which I don't have dedicated negative carriers - >for example 6x4.5 which I shoot occaisionally with a >holga :) - Hard to justify spending twice as much on a >negative carrier as you did for the camera! Do you cut the Holga negative strip apart, so that you just have one negative rather than a strip? I have a glass negative carrier for the DeVere, but the edges of it damage the strip if I don't cut the strip apart. --shannon ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.