polyglot
30-Dec-2013, 23:50
Hi all,
I generally scan all my film and use the scans as contact sheets, then wet-print the ones that I like. I do both B&W and C41/RA4 in my darkroom.
My problem is that my ancient LF scanner is horrible, it has a dirty CCD or something so I get what looks like big yellow curry smears on my C41 images. The smearing is of very slight density so doesn't really show up on B&W or E6 scans, but it's unusable for C41. I tend to shoot C41 because I can wet-print it (ain't no way I can project 4x5 chromes!), which means I need a way to quickly make contact proofs.
How the hell do you make a contact proof in total darkness? I don't have a 4x5 contact frame but all the ones I've seen seem to assume that you're doing B&W and can therefore tell what is going on in the frame. Am I missing something?
I could "enlarge" them 1:1, one at a time, but I'd much rather have the means to slap 4 negs onto an 8x10, stick them under the enlarger and be done with it in one pass. And no I don't have an 8x10 enlarger, the space or means to acquire one ;)
I generally scan all my film and use the scans as contact sheets, then wet-print the ones that I like. I do both B&W and C41/RA4 in my darkroom.
My problem is that my ancient LF scanner is horrible, it has a dirty CCD or something so I get what looks like big yellow curry smears on my C41 images. The smearing is of very slight density so doesn't really show up on B&W or E6 scans, but it's unusable for C41. I tend to shoot C41 because I can wet-print it (ain't no way I can project 4x5 chromes!), which means I need a way to quickly make contact proofs.
How the hell do you make a contact proof in total darkness? I don't have a 4x5 contact frame but all the ones I've seen seem to assume that you're doing B&W and can therefore tell what is going on in the frame. Am I missing something?
I could "enlarge" them 1:1, one at a time, but I'd much rather have the means to slap 4 negs onto an 8x10, stick them under the enlarger and be done with it in one pass. And no I don't have an 8x10 enlarger, the space or means to acquire one ;)