Hi: OK, currently I use an enlarger as a light source and zap the 4x5 negs under a g lass plate. It works fine if I want to have the neg in black with that "I'm arts y" edge of the negative showing. But for some things I want a nice contact print on 5x7 paper floating in a sea of white. Can't find really any books that don't treat contact printing beyond "well, some people like it, but lets move on to e nlarging".
Anyhow, I tried masking a 4x5 square of paper onto glass and spray-painting the glass black, but no mater how careful the edges bleed. I got one of those nicely cut transparency holders and used it as a mask, but co uldn't get the oomph on the negative. Now I'm thinking about using velum with black on it figuring it may also defuse and get rid of that one dust particle that I can NEVER get rid of.
Any hints before I give up on it -- I really like a little contact print that ge ts better the close you look at it -- kind of magic... Dean
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