Digital BW, The Print

I set mine up in my walk-in closet.  Hey, girls fill their closets up with shoes, what's an 
enlarger head and some trays?   :-)

Sanders.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Scott McLoughlin <scott@a...> 
wrote:
> 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 clichéd. 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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