Isabelle
Go to clydebutcher.com and you will see someone who is currently making prints as large as 8x10 feet. Clyde would be a good person to talk to.
Brian
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Isabelle
Go to clydebutcher.com and you will see someone who is currently making prints as large as 8x10 feet. Clyde would be a good person to talk to.
Brian
You got great resources close-by. The photography department at Newhouse; the art department at SU; the art department at Cornell; and Eastman Kodak and Eastman House in Rochester. GOOD LUCK.
Isabella, I've never heard of out sourcing the processing large format film to India. I have heard of out sourcing drum scanning of film, as drum scans are expensive what ever the film size within the western world. Drum scanning is the highest quality means of producing digital images from film, typically used for book/magazine publication, image stock libraries or very high quality larger prints.
After trying to get tech help on the phone from someone in India, for my computer, there is no way their touching MY film.
Isabella,did you graduate at Cal State Fullerton?
Outsourcing printing in "third" world country is a phenomenon that i have never heard of before.
Photo labs who cater to professionals and individuals who own a decently sized darkroom, could and still can handle big prints .
Making a rapid search on google i came up with this but it talks of serigraphy on mylar done with india Ink.
Good luck
Isabella,
You are very near RIT in Rochester and if Univeresity of S. doesn't have the information, you might see if you could go to RIT and see and do all the research and interview the Prof's there.
Years ago I had a large furniture photography studio and we routinely made 40 by 60 inch prints and I can say it takes some extra effort but was not anywhere near a major problem and for sure not sending across the world to do so. What they can do in labs here today is amazing.
Best wishes but as a former Newspaper person in WNY, please check your information .
Norm
Isabella,
Explanation on how we made the 40 by 60 inch prints back in the late 60's early 70's.
We had a tray like the kind which you can by in a wallpaper store for pulling paper through water, except it was deeper and about 50 inches wide. We would put the 8 by 10 inch negative in an elwood 8 by 10 enlarger and project the image on 40 by 60 inch sheets of photographic paper and then two of us would pull the paper back and forth through the tray until developed. The print was then put in a large sink (cyprus wood) that was large enough to hold the print, next into the hypo ( fixer) and then into the next sink to wash. We would produce several dozen for display prints for the client. Once washed we would then mount them on heavy mount board using wall paper paste while still wet.
Hope this explains somewhat how it was done not using machines. It is time consuming the we were well paid for it.
Again, hope this gives you an idea
here is something you may check it out. I forgot the link but the story is something like this....
long ago, before you and I and others in this forum were born, here in the USA, there is a sleeping-car train maker that build a few for the Exposition Universelle 1900 de Paris. Since it was expensive to ship the sleeping-cars, he build a LF camera big enough to take pictures of the sleeping-car full size, make some full size prints out of the negatives and ship the prints to Paris for the Exposition....
the details of this story is now in the archive somewhere....
good luck
http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/lawrence/mammoth.html
For those who contributed helpful information, thank you for your help. I'm writing a piece on large format DIGITAL photography and I wanted to compare the process between traditonal and digital. I was told this information by an architectural photographer who didn't use the process he described himself so I wanted to confirm that information before taking it as fact. Clearly, it is not. But, this is why I posted on here to RESEARCH my story before writing it. And to find out information from sources that knew of the subject. I'm a writer and not a photographer so I was trying to understand the process before attempting to write about it. So, again thank you to those who repsonded with something of help.
Sincerely,
Isabella Kanjanapangka