The thing most frustrating for me in 8x10 is that I dont have an 8x10 enlarger. Yes a contact print is beautiful but making a mural print from an 8x10 negative is where it really explodes in your face.
The thing most frustrating for me in 8x10 is that I dont have an 8x10 enlarger. Yes a contact print is beautiful but making a mural print from an 8x10 negative is where it really explodes in your face.
Making an 8 x 10 horizontal enlarger is real easy using your 8 x 10 camera (did it with my Kodak 2D). Found a old cold light head from an old Durst enlarger (that was the hard part), cut out the inner septum in an old wooden 8 x 10 film holder to be my negative holder, made a folding base out of plywood and hang it off the counter in the darkroom, and project the image on the wall.
Dan, nice job on the enlarger.
I love shooting my 8x10 camera. It is my "point and shoot." Contact printing in carbon with 8x10 negatives is pure joy as is printing 8x20 and 14x17 negatives. Some of my friends said I was done with the ULF cameras after my first rotator cuff surgery. Guess what? No way! You find ways to take the big cameras out no matter what, it is so much fun every time I use them.
As has been said many times already in this thread, the primary justification for downsizing would be convenience factor, perhaps tied with budget - feeding an 8x10 these days is costly. But I stick to my 8x10 because there's just so much great glass for it that can be had at reasonable prices (just scored a 250mm Kodak Wide-Field Ektar for $500). I feel like if I'm going to use a 4x5 for convenience and cost savings, then I may as well just shoot my Rolleiflex and get a whole lot more convenience and cost savings per-frame.
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"I feel like if I'm going to use a 4x5 for convenience and cost savings, then I may as well just shoot my Rolleiflex and get a whole lot more convenience and cost savings per-frame."
Don't say stuff like that! It causes problems in my head!
Perhaps it would be feasible to scan the 8x10 image with an Epson V850 and digitally print it on a decent large format printer like an Epson 7590 using fiber-based paper?Originally Posted by GuillaumeZuili
That's what I do for making digital negatives for alt process printing.
That's what I do. Spotting prints on a computer is better and far less tedious than doing it with Spot Tone! An Epson with P800 with Epson Exhibition Fiber Paper and sometimes a few other Epson papers are all I want.
The D word? I have the P800 too and my favorite paper is Canson Baryta, like glossy fiber dried matt. Epson mostly sells other people's paper.
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