Peter,xray dupe film comes in all sizes...try it you'll lkie it!!
Best, Peter
It seems like the best way to get a large negative is to either have it made by a lab or shoot a larger original. Of course if you are young and full of energy then experiment away. It looks like most of the suggestions lead to tinkering and figuring it out.
I spend some time on their site just now, I didn't see a tech sheet for the duplicating process but you mentioned Dektol, have you used this process very much? This actually sounds like something I'd try for some of my older 120 negatives. I might give it a go if it works well without a lot of time spent on determining factors.
I am at an impasse here as to how to go about creating a larger negative for contact printing from a smaller negative such as a 35mm or MF negs.
I am wanting to do larger prints in the range of 30x36 in Pt/Pl and gum bichromate but the negs I have are to small and I don't have access to LF or ULF cameras yet.
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The Ultrafine Continuous Tone Duplicating positive exposes under an enlarger and develops in Dektol under a standard safelight. What could be simpler?
Speaking of doing this, I was just in at Freestyle, and they have terrible (even horrifying) news. Apparently, all litho film is being discontinued in manufacture, and they cannot find anyone else who will make it for them. WTF?
I understand that Eugene Smith hated darkroom work. So much so that he make one perfect print with dodges and burns and cropped then made a copy neg of that print. The neg was large maybe 8x10.
With these he would just contact print. Cutting his darkroom time short. I'll have to go back in my books and videos to see if this is true. Maybe PE could answer this?
W. Eugene Smith printed heavily burned and dark prints. I didn't now of that trick. But you need an 8x10 camera to make the neg right?
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