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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: having digital negatives made
From: "Eric Neilsen Photography" <ej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, January 24, 2009 9:41 am
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Mark, Why do you think a medium format neg may be better? And Shannon, the
advantage that jumps out at me with a neg for the enlarger is the ability to
make prints of various sizes from the same output? If that is requirement at
all and you can also have a positive made and make your own contact neg
later.
Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street, Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
214-827-8301
www.ericneilsenphotography.com
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From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[
mailto:pure-silver-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Mark Blackwell
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 10:12 AM
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: having digital negatives made
First I think we need to get Shannon to clarify if a contact print is the
goal, or a negative is needed to use in an enlarger. With a contact print
there may be some other options, but frankly a digital negative with a a
film recorder would be best. Unless advised otherwise by the lab, or the
enlarger wouldn't accept a 4x5 or don't have something needed to print 4x5,
I'd personally use this as a test.
Id get a digital negative of the same file both as a Medium Format negative
and a 4x5 negative and see first hand which project and printed better in my
workflow and methods.
--- On Sat, 1/24/09, Eric Neilsen Photography
<ej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Eric Neilsen Photography <ej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: having digital negatives made
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 10:04 AM
> Better is such a loose term. The newer printers give you
> better results with
> the ABW setting than the 2200. However, if silver prints
> are your goal you
> may be better off going with a film negative made with an
> LVT. Not all
> providers of LVT will or can go up to anything bigger than
> 8x10. Some of it
> depends on the paper that you chose and whether a contact
> neg is a good
> choice. You also need to learn how much sharpening to add
> to your film to
> make it look right, etc. It is not just a slam dunk thing
> where you provide
> a file and it is perfect first time around. You may want to
> create a file
> with 4 4x5 on a single 8x10 layout and see what adjustments
> work best. ONLY
> deal with a lab that can tell you what your RGB # will
> translate to in real
> density to your negative. And just like with shooting and
> exposing you can
> get absolutely perfect target numbers but they will be
> really close.
>
>
>
> Eric Neilsen Photography
> 4101 Commerce Street, Suite 9
> Dallas, TX 75226
> 214-827-8301
>
www.ericneilsenphotography.com
>
> SKYPE ejprinter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [
mailto:pure-silver-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of
> Shannon Stoney
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 8:42 AM
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: having digital negatives made
>
> My enlarger can go up to 4x5. (the 8x10 enlarger is broken
> right now.)
>
> My ink jet printer is an Epson 2200, but I have access to a
> 2400. In
> the past my efforts to make digital negatives didn't
> work out very
> well, but maybe I can try again.
>
> My process is silver. :-) (Although in the past I did do
> those other
> processes you mention.) My paper scale is 1.2.
>
> So, you are saying that it is better to make a negative for
> enlarging
> than one for contact printing if possible?
>
> --shannon
>
>
> ere.
>
>
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