New idea - a Negative Exchange!

[MattKing]

I'm interested as well, but think that 12 is a bit high.

How about groups of 3 or 4?

I can print everything between 35mm and 6x9, but only shoot up to 6x7. Others may be similar. Possibly the size could help determine the groups.

 

[winger]

I'm interested, but only after I move back to PA (where my darkroom is). I agree that 3 or 4 is a better group size, too. I can do whatever format size from 35mm to 4x5.

As an aside, a group of which I'm a member used to have formal groups who would all print from one neg or file and they've recently had to disband the whole thing because they just didn't have enough participation. So I think it's a fantastic idea to get it going here.
And I printed some images for a friend of mine a few years ago. It was tough to get them to her satisfaction because we have different tastes and mindsets. But it was a great learning exercise (and the final ones did come out 'right', it just took a few to get there).

 

[ccross]

I would love to participate as well. I have been feeling like I have reached a bit of a plateau in my printing, so would be good to see others interpretations. The group of 12 scares me a bit as well, but I'd be willing to give it a go regardless of the number.

Thank,
Craig

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Ok- the number 12 was just a thought, because it's a common quantity for frames on a roll. Maybe we do it in rolling groups of four - the first four to sign up are a group, the next four, group two, and so on.

As I said, I'm flexible on the film format. While I can enlarge anything from 4x5 on down, I didn't want to exclude folks who don't have big darkrooms with big enlargers from participating, but I figure that most folks on APUG have enlargers that at least will handle 2 1/4. I also didn't want to make people go out and buy negative carriers for something they don't otherwise use.

Here's a new thought - Post your film size preference(s) along with your name, and I'll match up groups of folks who use similar negatives. We'll stick to the four per group. How does that sound?

 

[mike c]

I would be interested also and four is a more reasonable number.


Mike

 

[Eric Rose]

I would be interested in the 120 group.

 

[480sparky]

How about an open poll? Can the forum software do a poll thread where you can both 'vote' for multiple answers, as well as 'show who voted for what'?

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

I don't think the polls are that sophisticated. I've started a new thread (there was a url link here which no longer exists) for folks to sign up. Go to the new thread, post your name, location, film format and print media, and as soon as I get groups of four, I'll assign them. If you sign up and don't get a group right away, be patient, and feel free to PM me if it takes a while. I'm going to confine the exercise to b/w printing only as color is both harder to print at home and in some ways less open to interpretation than b/w.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

I want Thomas to print my negatives. I've got a box of several hundred ready to go and I can ship it today. Please use Gallery and Art 300.

How much money you got?

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

I'd be interested but I've yet to set up a darkroom.

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

I'm interested. It would be fun. But I'm a hybrid shooter. B&W film but scan and print digitally. (ducks down as wadded up 120 backing paper and old test strips are thrown at me)

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Richard - I think for the purposes of this exercise, given also that this is APUG, we would have to limit this to wet darkroom prints. We could include non-chemical prints in an all-ink round later for folks with a hybrid workflow.

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

Richard - I think for the purposes of this exercise, given also that this is APUG, we would have to limit this to wet darkroom prints. We could include non-chemical prints in an all-ink round later for folks with a hybrid workflow.

No worries. Understood.