We used a either a Durst vertical 8x10" enlarger or either of our DeVere 10x10" horizontal enlargers to do these. They were reasonably common for upmarket wedding photographers to order and also for upmarket portrait photographers.
One of the issues often encountered was when the photographer changed their aperture, but not shutter speed for some of their frames. This necessitated masks for each underexposed frame so we could burn in the normal and overexposed frames.
We used, "removable magic tape" to hold everything in place.
In general we used 20"x16" cut sheet paper, but sometimes we used 24"x30" cut sheet paper; which I seem to remember was the largest cut sheet RA4 paper Kodak made.
When Kodak Ektar 25 Professional film came out (135 format), we made a series of escalating contact proof sheets for Kodak Australia. We had a standard contact sheet, then we used about 4 enlargements of that contact sheet, starting at 20"x16", then 24"x30" then we used roll paper for two more sizes with the largest being around 1.8m high on the short side by whatever the long side came out at. A really hard job to get super correct and relatively dust and spot free, but they were a brilliant showcase of just how good that film, was.
These were used at a couple of wedding trade shows, but for many reasons Ektar 25 Professional never really took off in the wedding photography business, with probably the biggest issue being it was generally an unsuitable film for wedding photography.
One of the issues often encountered was when the photographer changed their aperture, but not shutter speed for some of their frames. This necessitated masks for each underexposed frame so we could burn in the normal and overexposed frames.
We used, "removable magic tape" to hold everything in place.
In general we used 20"x16" cut sheet paper, but sometimes we used 24"x30" cut sheet paper; which I seem to remember was the largest cut sheet RA4 paper Kodak made.
When Kodak Ektar 25 Professional film came out (135 format), we made a series of escalating contact proof sheets for Kodak Australia. We had a standard contact sheet, then we used about 4 enlargements of that contact sheet, starting at 20"x16", then 24"x30" then we used roll paper for two more sizes with the largest being around 1.8m high on the short side by whatever the long side came out at. A really hard job to get super correct and relatively dust and spot free, but they were a brilliant showcase of just how good that film, was.
These were used at a couple of wedding trade shows, but for many reasons Ektar 25 Professional never really took off in the wedding photography business, with probably the biggest issue being it was generally an unsuitable film for wedding photography.
