35mm.. largest print size?

[ToddB]

Hey guys,

I was wondering what is the biggest sized print (BandW) that you can get away with and still have it look nice and tight? I was guessing 11x14 with 100 ASA film

Todd

 

[lightwisps]

Todd, it depends a lot on taste and the effect you are going for. I often make 20X24 inch prints from 35mm. Viewed from a distance they are mindboggling. Don

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Not again... There have been a zillion of these threads already. Just do a search, please. Go to Google and type: site:www.apug.org 35mm print size

 

[ToddB]

I'm sorry.. should of searched. 20x24 print? Cool and photographic impressicstic photo.

 

[Vonder]

Eventually nearly all questions will have been asked and the board will go quiet; merely acting as an oracle to which pilgrims come for pearls of wisdom.

 

[Gerald C Koch]

Wolfeye,

In the news a week or so ago when a man's boat began to sink he rescued his dog first and then his wife. I woild guess a great dog, a so-so wife.

 

[NB23]

To me, TMAX 3200 looks best, especially at 20x24. That size is unfortunately the max I can go. I just love it.

 

[summicron1]

i've made 11 by 14 from a minox negative (9 by 11 mm) and it was quite sharp and very grainy -- but the grain was sharp too -- a pontilist looking print, very nice, but not something you do every day.

 

[DREW WILEY]

Yeah... here we go again.... And inevitably, that "viewed from a distance" disclaimer keeps popping up. You could take a 35mm shot, or even a cell phone shot for that matter, and have it put up on a billboard forty feet across, and it would look just fine from a "normal viewing distance" of a quarter mile away! But if you want to hold the print in your hands, even an 11x14 print is an extreme 10X enlargement. So don't expect it to look anything like an 11x14 contact print, even with the very finest grain films and sharpest lenses. Best to let 35mm do what it does best, and realize that grain isn't that big an evil as long as you intelligently factor it into your mode of composition and presentation.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Eventually nearly all questions will have been asked and the board will go quiet; merely acting as an oracle to which pilgrims come for pearls of wisdom.

That's not true. Because new materials and new techniques will reveal themselves, and people that don't mind pushing boundaries and limits will discover new things to share. That will never end.

What I mean with doing research before asking questions is to get to at least a starting point. A little effort goes a long way in understanding the very basics, and then a discussion of higher quality can be had, instead of having the same basic question asked a hundred times over.

 

[Chris Lange]

As big as my enlarger will go.

 

[omaha]

Wolfeye,

In the news a week or so ago when a man's boat began to sink he rescued his dog first and then his wife. I woild guess a great dog, a so-so wife.

Remember the old bit about finding out who really loves you? Lock your wife and your dog in the trunk of your car for an hour and see which one is happy to see you when you let them out...

 

[Bob Carnie]

fantastic thats a good one.

Remember the old bit about finding out who really loves you? Lock your wife and your dog in the trunk of your car for an hour and see which one is happy to see you when you let them out...

 

[Bob Carnie]

Dogs give ultimate love, you can never go wrong with them, they always think you are the best, helps if you have a milkbone with you.

 

[Dinesh]

....instead of having the same basic question asked a hundred times over.

Agreed.

Now, is it safe for me to pour fixer down the drain and is 400TX and HC-110 a good combination?

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Agreed.

Now, is it safe for me to pour fixer down the drain and is 400TX and HC-110 a good combination?

Jerk.

 

[erikg]

How about how small can a print be? 35mm contact? How about a half frame contact? I made one once that I fell in love with, thought about doing a show of those but maybe that's going too far. I love small prints anyway. I worked with a retouch artist who said often the things that make a tiny image work are often the same things that make a mural size image work, but at an in between size they kind of suck. I thought that was an interesting observation.

 

[DREW WILEY]

That ain't small. At one time they had contests to see how many texts of the entire Bible could be put on a microdot. It was up to more than
two dozen even before WWII. Now with micro lasers, who knows? But if microfilm gives lots of detail with 35mm film and good lenses, it sure
stinks when it comes to tonality, even in all those specialized developers. ... But I do know a photographer whose hobby was to make 35mm
color contact prints, and he displayed them with a gooseneck magnifier attached to each oversized picture frame. His day job was making
jewelry.

 

[clayne]

What's the longest I can lock my wife in the trunk before her anger becomes visible while hand holding?

 

[MattKing]

In other words they are idiots. Some of them are cute looking though.

Are you referring to dogs or are you referring to wives?

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Are you referring to dogs or are you referring to wives?

I think the person that locked them in the trunk would be the obvious idiot, but not sure if they'd be cute. Some of them might be. Difficult to say...

 

[Pasto]

In B&W I prefer a very smooth tonality, a large range of tones, and with sharpness and detail throughout. I can't get this look with 35mm unless I print at 5x7 or smaller, and from a slow emulsion like TMX or FP4+. TMY does it sometimes as well if I happen to properly expose and develop it. Since I like my prints to be in the 8x10 to 16x20 range I only enlarge medium format, and contact print 8x10 sheets. I hope this helps.

 

[hacked - sepiareverb]

Rollei Ortho 25. No limit.

 

[DREW WILEY]

Bingo... Rollei Ortho.... yeah sure, it's still a blob of mush at 10x enlargement unless you factor in that normal viewing distance nonsense. And
with these ultrafine films, every tiny coating aphid in the sky or otherwise untextured area will look like a blimp, so expect a lot of retouching.
Now I'm certainly not saying don't use it, but it sure ain't no substitute for more surface area of film. Want a big print? Get a big camera.

 

[Dinesh]

Jerk.

Down the drain it is!