Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Platinum printing is a contact printing only process. If you shoot 35mm, and there are those that do, you will have to make an enlarged negative of the size you wish your print to be. Somewhere I have read, perhaps on the net, not sure, of people who make big contact negatives on a high-quality inkjet printer on clear acetate film. I would think this would be the way to go, if you want to shoot with minature films." I dunno. I not sure I'd want to mess around trying to blow up a 35mm negative into order to make a platinum contact print. You need a really tight, sharp, contrasty negative to get the benefits of platinum printing, which is all about tone rendition. I suspect that even the best Leica lenses can't put enough tonal data on 35mm film to yield a suitable 8x10 digital negative. Of course, with Photoshop you can interpolate the hell out of any image and add whatever tonal data you want. If you have an artist's eye, you can paint by numbers and make a very pretty picture indeed. But it won't be real. DSF