>how the hell do you make contact prints off a whole roll?
You don't. When you send the film in for processing and proofing, the lab
processes the film and makes individual color corrected 3 1/2 x 5, 5 x 5 or
4 x6 machine made proof prints off the negatives and returns the set of
color corrected proof prints with roll and frame identification (and color
printing information) printed on the back of each print along with the
negatives sleeved individually in envelopes with the same identifying and
color information on those envelopes as are on the proof print of that
negative. If you want automated enlargements in standard crops, you tape
the desired frame on the appropriate aperture card with the emulsion side
facing front and check of the size enlargement desired in that crop. If you
want custom enlargements, you can send in the proof print with instructions
along with the negative for that image and they will put the medium format
frame in a negative carrier (glass or glassless) which is then put in the
enlarger. I find it no trouble at all to put single MF frames in a negative
carrier for use in a manual enlarger. In fact I find it more trouble to use
stripes which contain more that three 6x7 frames or four 645 frames since in
my enlarger they stick out beyond the negative carrier and wind up getting
caught up in the enlarger head itself.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Tony Sleep
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 3:44 PM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: RE: filmscanners: MF scanner for 120 strips
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:16:23 -0400 Austin Franklin
(darkroom@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> Laurie's right on the money. This is for color mind you... My pro lab
> "cards" them (puts each individual negative in a glassine) with the
> exposure
> compensation information on the glassine, that information is used for
> reprints. This is mostly for wedding/portrait work.
Weird. Maybe a difference between UK and US practice. I think I'd be
furious if a lab did that to my negs : how the hell do you make contact
prints off a whole roll?
Regards
Tony Sleep
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