4x10 E-6 procesing

[Kirk Fry]

If you have a large enough lens board you could off set your lens by 2 inches up or down. (Flip over the board depending on which half you are using assuming a square board). Just a thought. K

Seems to me if you are going to do color, you are stuck processing it yourself in 4X10.

[tim810]

I do 4x10's on 8x10 sheets with a cut dark slide (B&W), it seems to work pretty good! Sometimes, depending on how much front rise you have, you'll get slightly more or slightly less space inbetween both of the 4x10's, but it's only a few mm difference at the most, from what I've seen.

So far I've just been visually composing with out actually blocking out 1/2 of the ground glass, but I think I'm going to start covering up 1/2 of the glass with something, as I seem to be doing more 4x10 compositions. Maybe I'll rig up some velcro system so that I can cover up either the top 1/2, or the bottom 1/2

Daniel,
I have been using this method for a while now even in 3x2.25x10. I just use the leftover pieces from the cut dark slide to block out the ground glass. I just do a little trimming to make it fit. This does help a lot in composition.

Also,
since I am doing two of the same image on each sheet with just some mods to exposure, I have found that just reversing the rotating back on my camera works best. I end up with two identical images on the one sheet.

Enjoy

[reellis67]

I don't, or at least not yet. I cut the holder such that the cut-out leaves a full width of the darkslide where it rests inside the holder. In other words, the cut stops where the holder begins to allow light to reach the film, it looks kind of like an L. This also helps to keep the cut darkslide from getting out of alignment and masking off part of the area that would otherwise be exposed at the far end of the holder.

- Randy

[bwchrome]

luis;

we can do this format E6.

regards

dw

www.dr5.com

Any recomendations for a good lab that may be willing to process 4x10 E-6?

I have called Praus and other labs and they are not willing to do it.

Thanks Luis