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.