[Leica] Putting Barnack's Philosophy to the Test: Small Negative, Large Print

["Greg J. Lorenzo" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca>]

After more than a week's worth of doing nothing but sort massive amounts 
of paper for my tax year end I finally got back into the darkroom late 
last night to put Barnack's Philosophy of "small negative, large print" 
to the test by doing a number of 16X20 prints. This required that I 
extend the column on my V35 to it's maximum setting and print without an 
easel. While I have done 16X20 prints before, when testing equipment, I 
cheated somewhat by using paper no larger than 8X10 or 11X14 and used 
test negatives supplied by Leica.

Well I must say I am extremely pleased with the result. I enlarged B&W 
35mm negatives which had been created hand held at f stops of 5.6 to 11 
and shutter speeds from 1/250 to 1/60 using either an M2 or M3.

To go beyond 16X20 I will need to reverse the head on the V35 and print 
on the floor but I wondering what is the large print limit people have 
seen from their Leica cameras?

It seems Barnack was right!

Regards,

Greg


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