Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Johnny Deadman wrote: > > on 21/4/00 12:35 AM, Jim Brick at jimbrick@photoaccess.com wrote: > > > 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. > > Joe's Basement will do this for you in London... I've had it done a few > times. The only problem is the sheets are so damn big. For looking at 35mm > contacts casually I like those light-gathering loupes... for up close I use > either a linen tester or a reversed 50mm lens. > > -- > Johnny Deadman > I have delivered many 16x20 contact sheets to clients when i have shot their "events." I make them in the rental lab. I roll them up and put them in a cardboard tube for them. 16x20 is kinda big but Minor White considered 20x24 to be non-archival because they were too "big." 16x20 is handy in comparison. If you lived in the high desert 20x24's might seem small! Mark Rabiner