Print negative as negative?

[Kokoro]

not my question but this was posted on the black and white forum on dpreview today:

"Is it possible to print a negative as a negative. As I want to print in the dark room the image as it appears on the negative. I don't want the positive image. any help would be great thank you."

I will mention that I have posted it here.

link: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/50199069

 

[cliveh]

not my question but this was posted on the black and white forum on dpreview today:

"Is it possible to print a negative as a negative. As I want to print in the dark room the image as it appears on the negative. I don't want the positive image. any help would be great thank you."

I will mention that I have posted it here.

link: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/50199069

Yes, lots of ways you can do this and probably the easy way is to use the print as photogram material to make a neg on top of another print, or for better quality use ortho film to make pos/neg.

 

[removed account4]

make a positive,
then CONTACT PRINT it on another sheet of paper
( test strips and all )
your print will be a negative ....

if you have a large format camera
just shoot a PAPER NEGATIVE
no contact prints needed.
if you don't have a LF camera
you can make a PINHOLE CAMERA and make a paper negative
or make a camera out of cardboard ( its easy ) and expose a paper negative.

 

[nexus757]

Flop the neg with the emulsion facing the condenser in your enlarger; print a mirror-image positive; then use the positive as a paper negative to contact print a negative under plate glass.

 

[Jim Noel]

Piece of cake. direct positive, "Duplicating Film".

 

[tkamiya]

Here:

http://www.apug.org/gallery1/showimage.php?i=68190&catid=member&imageuser=36046

This was done by taking a negative film, placing it on a light table and taking a macro shot of it. Then take that film and print it as normal. Result is a negative image. I had to increase the contrast of the second print by about one grade.

I used normal film and normal paper, and all the usual chemicals.

 

[wildbill]

ilford direct positive paper.

 

[tkamiya]

If your friend is interested in doing this the analog way, why don't you invite him/her to join APUG and have a direct discussion with us? Most of us don't bite....

 

[gandolfi]

A fun way would be this:

Put the negative in the enlarger - expose the image on a new film in your camera without the lens... (The camera is put under the enlarger as if it is a piece of paper..) Having a "modern" one with a decent lightmeter and automatic exposure, you don't even have to mesure the light...

Expose and develop as normal..

(This was also used to make huge enlargements of an image in order to get big grain and to get a pictorialistic image..)

 

[EASmithV]

Easiest way is direct positive paper. Otherwise i'd use lith film.

 

[Newt_on_Swings]

Direct positive is expensive though... a large sheet of lithfilm, and a contact from the resulting positive would be the way i'd do it. Cheapest is to contact emulsion to emulsion on regular paper.

 

[sly]

Here's my attempt at printing a lantern slide on direct positive paper.

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

 

[DREW WILEY]

I prefer the double-negative technique. Just by coincidence, I stumbled upon my old copy of Kodak's
Copying and Duplicating book, about mid-80's vintage. There is a wealth of information in there, even
though some of the specialized films are no longer specifically available. You might hunt for a copy
of this publication in some used bookdealer search engine. But not much has changed per technique
since the 1920's. Helps to have a decent contact printing frame.