Ed Bray
20-Oct-2012, 04:20
With the purchase of an 8x10 camera and some film holders my thoughts are now turning as to how I end up with some decent contact prints.
As I already have an 8x10 Jobo Varioformat Easel, I am thinking about using this coupled with my 'Better Scanning' 8x10 AN glass to use as a holder/contact press, and I could then use one of my 2x colour enlargers to provide the coloured light for the multigrade paper.
So: I would place the paper in the easel face up, then the negative emulsion side up and then the AN glass on top to press the negative to the paper, would this be correct?
As I would be contact printing and therefore unable to locally dodge or burn I think that the use of multigrade paper will allow the contrast to be altered slightly to suit the negative, correct or not?
As I already have an 8x10 Jobo Varioformat Easel, I am thinking about using this coupled with my 'Better Scanning' 8x10 AN glass to use as a holder/contact press, and I could then use one of my 2x colour enlargers to provide the coloured light for the multigrade paper.
So: I would place the paper in the easel face up, then the negative emulsion side up and then the AN glass on top to press the negative to the paper, would this be correct?
As I would be contact printing and therefore unable to locally dodge or burn I think that the use of multigrade paper will allow the contrast to be altered slightly to suit the negative, correct or not?