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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 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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