[rollei_list] Re: Platinum Printing (was: Developing and Printing at Home (was: Re: More first Rolleicord pics...))

  • From: Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:46:38 -0500

On Saturday, March 5, 2005, at 03:04  PM, Dennis Purdy wrote:

>>> Platinum printing is my method and has been for 20 years.. (I am B&S  
>>> customer number 25 or so). With the incredible cost of silver paper  
>>> these days it is really just about as cheap to make a pl/pd print.
>>
>> Wonderful! Where do you get your inter-negatives made? And what size  
>> do you normally print?
>
> I have always shot 8X10 and printed that size.. however I am in the  
> process of learning to enlarge negs because I am tired of the 8x10  
> camera and want to start shooting roll film. My interest in the  
> Rolleiflex started from looking at Irving Penn's enlarged platinum  
> prints. Unbelievable quality. It took me a year to get a Rollei that I  
> really like and now am waiting for Harry Fleenor to send it back to me  
> with the 220 switch installed and an overhauled film transport. I am  
> impatiently waiting. I will enlarge the negs myself in a positive to  
> positive process. My goal is of course a variety of sizes from small  
> to 15x15 inches.

Yes, that's the way to go IMHO. One can get even larger inter-negatives  
made by an inkjet printer on transparency stock. Check out  
<http://www.danburkholder.com/Pages/main_pages/ 
book_info_main_page1.htm>.


Cheers.















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