Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for the encouragement.

Hmm. How did you guess my friend was in NYC :-) But I have
dibs on his darkroom gear. Surfing around the net for schemes on
"bathtub darkroom" setups :-) He's supposed to come down in July.
Can't wait :-)

Scott

sandersnyc wrote:

> Scott, you don't have to go to 8x10 and Azo to work with contact prints.
>
> I am contact-printing my 4x5 and 5x7 negatives. They are lovely. In 
> the SuperSized world
> we inhabit, people are infatuated with all things huge. The advent of 
> inkjet printing has
> enabled people to print at sizes that would be prohibitive in most 
> darkrooms, so in the
> past few years there has been a shift upward in size expectations.
>
> In that environment, a 4x5 contact print is a rare and beautiful 
> thing. It is sweet and
> modest and jewellike. Big is clich\ufffdd. Think different! An 8x10 rig is 
> more expensive and
> more difficult in many ways than a 4x5. You'll shoot more negatives 
> with a 4x5, and
> become adept more quickly at large format photography as a result. And 
> you have a 4x5
> camera at hand already -- don't be seduced so quickly by the larger 
> format.
>
> Azo ... there is a legion of Azo adherents. Honestly, any paper will 
> do. Azo is nice, but
> there are many other papers. Sticking blindly to Azo is akin to 
> sticking blindly to Photo
> Rag in the inkjet world. Different images require different papers, in 
> the darkroom as on
> an inkjet printer. Get your friend to give you his enlarger -- you 
> won't be enlarging your
> negatives but you can use it to control the amount and color of the 
> light for contact
> printing. The latter is important because variable-contrast papers are 
> controlled by the
> color of the light by which they are exposed.
>
> Have fun! If your friend is in New York and looking for a home for his 
> darkroom stuff, let
> me know.
>
> Sanders McNew
> www.mcnew.net
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Scott McLoughlin 
> <scott@a...>
> wrote:
> > Don't laugh. The idea of making an 8x10 contact print on the floor of my
> > bathroom has a certain romantic charm to it :-) Haven't looked into 8x10
> > cameras at all, but I imagine they're large beasties :-)
> >
> > Brian Ellis wrote:
> >
> > > If you want to really blow their minds don't mess around with little
> > > formats
> > > like 6x7 or 4x5, go straight to 8x10 and show them your contact 
> prints on
> > > Azo paper. : - )
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@r...>
> > > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 4:55 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Air fiber based vs. current photo 
> papers>
> > >
> > > > In any case, one of these days I'm going to snag a 6x6 TLR, or a 
> 6x7 or
> > > > a 4x5 and really blow their minds :-)
> > > >
> > > > Scott
> > > >
> > > >
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