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Old 2nd December 2008, 06:59 PM
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Like the other aspects of LF, I'm just making a start with contact printing. I have a 5x4 enlarger, but for the time being am happy making contact prints. Nothing clever, so far I've used my Durst 35mm enlarger as a light source and 5x7 gloss RC paper to print on.

Hopefully I've attached my first bash at this...
And a very worthy subject.
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Old 2nd December 2008, 07:01 PM
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Thanks.

I think my New Year's resolution (if not sooner) should be to stop using it as a prop and get back to taking pictures with it!
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Like the other aspects of LF, I'm just making a start with contact printing. I have a 5x4 enlarger, but for the time being am happy making contact prints. Nothing clever, so far I've used my Durst 35mm enlarger as a light source and 5x7 gloss RC paper to print on.

Hopefully I've attached my first bash at this...
Contact prints are very satisfying as you and others have shown here. They are little gems. Edward Weston produced the majority of his work as contact prints.
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I have done some contact printing and also hope to do a lot more in the new year. Pt/Pl test strip below.
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Aha. Now that, Barry, is one of your long ones. I was wondering how that was coming along.
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I put a few bids in for whole-plate cameras that came up on the auction site in the past but they always went for more than I was prepared to pay (like, £100 with holders!). So, I decided I will wait to win the lottery, at which point I will get an 11x14 which seems to me to be the sweet spot between portability and print size...

This however is unlikely to pass as I have never entered a lottery and have no intention of ever doing so. I suspect this means my contact printing days will not occur in the near future. I know some like 5x4 but I find them too small - but subject choice probably pays a large part in that.
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I put a few bids in for whole-plate cameras that came up on the auction site in the past but they always went for more than I was prepared to pay (like, £100 with holders!). So, I decided I will wait to win the lottery, at which point I will get an 11x14 which seems to me to be the sweet spot between portability and print size...

This however is unlikely to pass as I have never entered a lottery and have no intention of ever doing so. I suspect this means my contact printing days will not occur in the near future. I know some like 5x4 but I find them too small - but subject choice probably pays a large part in that.
£100 does seem a trifle optimistic for such a venture, however the purchase of a 10 x 8 DDS is feasibly for around £25 which will leave you £75 to hone your Blue Peter skills on a suitable pinhole camera to fit it to.
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£100 does seem a trifle optimistic for such a venture, however the purchase of a 10 x 8 DDS is feasibly for around £25 which will leave you £75 to hone your Blue Peter skills on a suitable pinhole camera to fit it to.
Nothing wrong with 10x8 pinhole

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Anyone here doing any form of contact printing? I know Carl Radford and Ian Leake does, and I am (thanks to Ian) but is there anyone else. Please share your thoughts, loves, hates, anything really.
I have a Sinar Norma with an 8x10 back which I haven`t used yet. The bellows have been replaced by Camera Bellows Ltd and I have a Nikon 240mm f/5.6 Nikkor-W lens and some Ilford FP4 Plus in 8x10. Ideally, I would like to buy some A4 size B&W paper for contact printing and a proper contact printing frame if such a thing exist.
Could you tell me a bit more about the Lodima paper that you mentioned?
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SNIP; Could you tell me a bit more about the Lodima paper that you mentioned?
It's a replacement for Kodak's Azo paper and is formulated by American photographers Michael A. Smith and his wife Paula Chamlee.

The first batch of grade 2, 8x10" is now sold out. All being well it should go into full production in 2009 when it will be available in other sizes and grades.

See this link; http://www.michaelandpaula.com/mp/newpaper.html
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