[pure-silver] Re: OT Large Format Question

>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

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