Eric, From reading your post I think you would like the films of Robert Schaller, someone I went to school with in the 1990's. https://www.robertschaller.org/film/
-B.C. On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 5:39 PM Eric Theise <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 8:07 PM Fritz Robinson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I want to know from Eric in this post how he prepares his contact printed >> strips for developing. Does he edit them together before sending film to be >> processed. Will processors take undeveloped rolls of film that has been >> edited. I don’t know if the glue or tape will withstand the process. >> > > Hi Fritz, > > Thanks much for your interest. It's a little complicated to explain. > > Although my source materials, the etchings, were in strips, I contact > printed onto 100 foot rolls of 3383 > <https://filmstocks.info/stocks/kodak-3383-vision-color-print-film>. At > the time, Monaco, a local lab, would spool that stock onto daylight reels > on request. I wouldn't be surprised if Mono No Aware does that today. > > I created a sort of split magazine from two 400 foot film cans, using tin > snips to cut a slot across the height of the cans, spray painting the > insides with matte black paint, lining the incision with black velvet to > prevent emulsion scratching and light leaks. The cans were brought together > so that the slots touched, and were then placed into a photographer's > changing bag. I'd arrange the etchings, gels, guides on the light table > with room lights on. I'd then switch off the lights and spool the print > stock across the light table over the elements I'd arranged. I'd forgotten, > but I think I made a very long, narrow sandbag that ran the length of the > table to weigh things down, and then I'd do a quick flick on a > spring-loaded switch to illuminate the fluorescent tube that was under the > glass surface. Very brief. Then I would wind the exposed footage into the > take up can, bring the cans together, put them into the changing bag, and > turn the room lights on again before preparing the next strip. > > Repeat. > > (A better way to do this is to use a vacuum table that was once common for > platemaking in the printing industry.) > > This was not inconvenient compared to what you're suggesting: splicing > exposed footage together for a lab to process. > > I'm many thousand miles away from home and don't know that I have any > detailed photographs of my setup. The interior image at > https://erictheise.com/films/ shows the light table I used on the floor > at left but it's probably too distant to be helpful. > > Hope the words make some sense. > > Eric > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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