[Leica] Re: making contact prints

[Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>]

I know a photographer that loved to use 35mm but hated contact sheets. You
have to admit that even with a good loupe, they are pretty ridiculous.

His solution was to make 16x20 proof sheets. He had an old Elwood 8x10
enlarger. He put his 35mm neg strips in the 8x10 glass negative carrier and
made a 16x20 print. His 35mm proofs looked like Medium Format proofs. His
customers liked them also.

Jim


At 11:33 AM 4/19/00 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>I hate showing contacts to clients!!. It reduces me, the photographer to the
>status of hovering 3 D copier. 
>"Shoot the thing from every single angle and we'll figure out which shot
>inadvertently came out with some class." is the quote in effect.
>Some of the very high end people are able to circumvent this and just show the
>client some selected proofs.
>I've been able to pull this off on occasion myself.
>Especially with slides. I never have them numbered for partially that reason.
>They see 8; the see 10 they wanna know what happened to 9.
>I bring in a page or even a half page of slides and they can often be happy.
>It's not what you shoot but what gets printed that counts!!!!!.
>They inevitability pick out some inane shot and then they make sure my name
>appears on it.
>It's not my fault I didn't do it! They made me do it! They never believe me.
>I wasn't there when I shot that!
>I don't recall shooting that!
>Where they got that from I'll never know!!!
>All excuses for loosing control of your work.
>Showing contacts are like hanging up your dirty underwear outside before you 
>put
>them through the wash.
>Mark Rabiner