Oh Boy, you're in the right place. Do you want to contact print or enlarge??Hello from the Rocky Mountain Front! I am hoping that I'll be able to find some guidance in the future related to conventional photo printing of a large collection of large-format old negatives (larger than 4X5).
Thank you!
Greetings to our new member from the land where some artist giants have worked. Have you been around photography and photographers much? In other words do you know what the "words" mean? Words like contact prints where the negative is placed in contact with the printing paper (done in the dark). When subjected to light for the correct amount of time and the paper developed in print developer, then into another called stop then into a fixing bath for a prescribed length of time then washed. There, you know everything I know about contact printing, almost. Enlarging is taking a usually smaller, negative and putting it into an optical apparatus to make the print. If these are familiar words to you, you already speak our language. If not, stay with us and you will get there. One caution. As you progress with this group, your skin will thicken. It helps if your skin is a little thick already.....Welcome again...Regards!Hello from the Rocky Mountain Front! I am hoping that I'll be able to find some guidance in the future related to conventional photo printing of a large collection of large-format old negatives (larger than 4X5).
Thank you!
The negs are about 5X7. There are a couple of thousand of them. These photos date back to at least 1910. They were shot by photographers hired by the government to document a project. I'm in the process of scanning for a museum archive, but some of the photos are so spectacular that I would like to make enlargements.Oh Boy, you're in the right place. Do you want to contact print or enlarge??
Thanks for the reply. I'm certainly no "pro." I grew up in a large daily newspaper, and learned to shoot from the staff photographers in the early days of the Nikon F (no light meter!). I've worked in a commercial darkroom, with enlargers, but that was decades ago. I've shot with medium format (Mamiya) and large format (Speed Graphic), but as a hobbyist.Greetings to our new member from the land where some artist giants have worked. Have you been around photography and photographers much? In other words do you know what the "words" mean? Words like contact prints where the negative is placed in contact with the printing paper (done in the dark). When subjected to light for the correct amount of time and the paper developed in print developer, then into another called stop then into a fixing bath for a prescribed length of time then washed. There, you know everything I know about contact printing, almost. Enlarging is taking a usually smaller, negative and putting it into an optical apparatus to make the print. If these are familiar words to you, you already speak our language. If not, stay with us and you will get there. One caution. As you progress with this group, your skin will thicken. It helps if your skin is a little thick already.....Welcome again...Regards!
Welcome to Photo.You came to the right place!Hello from the Rocky Mountain Front! I am hoping that I'll be able to find some guidance in the future related to conventional photo printing of a large collection of large-format old negatives (larger than 4X5).
Thank you!
Yes.The film board held the film via a vacuum. Long shot here, but might that setup be adapted for photo prints?
...companies like Agfa and Dainippon Screen manufactured more compact, vertical cameras. Those cameras had copyboards with backlighting. The film board held the film via a vacuum. Long shot here, but might that setup be adapted for photo prints?
I keep track of used newspaper equipment, and over the years I scrapped a lot of the large horizontal cameras. But a few years back I noticed these cameras were going for thousands of $. I noticed one on Ebay for $7,500 currently. Wondering why the high price about a year ago, I found out that some photographers were picking them up for ultra-large format photography. The larger cameras I used in newspapers were 20X24, and one "double-truck" sized newspaper camera was 24X36. The first process camera I used still had arc lamps!Basically yes, but I have not heard of anyone here at Apug using one.
Here a link to a detailed german posting on this use:
https://grossformatfotografie.de/thread/4163-reprokamera/?postID=38148#post38148
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