Hello all. I need your help. After 40 years of "regular" printing, I finally have need to print a subject as a negative, as Paul Caponigro and others have done. I have a friend with a large ranch on which a giant Valley Oak stands. She wanted a photograph of it, but after seeing the negative, wants a matching photograph of the negative; a negative print. We all know how beautiful 8x10 negatives can look in and of themselves and I must confess that this negative, with the tree delineated against a foggy background, would make an interesting match. Understand that I am not going to do this digitally so I need another old geezer's advice who has done this successfully the traditional way in the darkroom. In general terms I am assuming I would sandwich the original 8x10 negative atop a piece of 8x10 film (hopefully another sheet of the same, HP5+), emulsion to emulsion, on a black sheet of paper with a piece of glass (ANR?) on top to hold everything flat. Then, positioned under the enlarger, I would expose and develop the same way I developed the negative. Am I right or wrong with this? Also, what ball park help can you provide about f stops and exposure times under the enlarger? I am thinking I would cut up a piece of film and test for exposure times...but what do you folks who have done this advise to help me with the learning curve? Any details you remember would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance for any help you can provide!! Robert
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