Re: [Leica] Negative Help...

["Bill Larsen" <ohlen@lightspeed.net>]

Since you appear to me in the TN - VA area, I don't know where to send you.
In any event, I would make it a two step process.  First I would have the
negatives contact printed onto proof sheets.  This will show him what he has
(unless he can read the negative well --- which I doubt since he asked).  You
should be able to negotiate this with any b&w photographer or even a student
with access to darkroom facilities.

Then he can decide if he wants enlarged prints, what size, what cropping (if
any), does he want them toned...etc.  Sounds like the processor would have to
have a 4x5 inch or greater enlarger.  Once he has the contact sheets, he could
also scan them with a quality flatbed scanner.  What does he want to do with
the final output???  Web page...mount...or???

- -Bill

- -----Original Message-----
From: Bryant Terry <bterry@naxs.net>
To: leica <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 7:44 AM
Subject: [Leica] Negative Help...


>Good morning folks,
>
>A co-worker has handed me an envelop with about fifty negatives in it.
>(He chose me because I have a camera with numbers all over it. Hence;
>expert. ) ( Leica numbers, of course. : ) )
>
>These are single negatives measuring about 2.5"X4.25".  All very old
>B&W.  The only surviving artifacts of a lost generation of his family.
>Anyway, he would like prints from these and I haven't a clue as to where
>to direct him.  But somehow I would like to retain, however briefly, my
>expert status.
>
>Can any member tell me what I'm holding and where I might send him??
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Bryant
>