----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: *ist D
> I know that, but even with the digital nasties > my 11"by 17" inkjets are remarkable using 4X5 > scanned film compared to MF or 35mm. > > I recently bought an 8X10 camera just for contact > printing. The results are incredible. Now I > know why some fanatics go even bigger, 11X14 > and 16X20. The contact prints must be phenomenal! You have taken a route that I would have liked to, but lifes little realities always seemed to get in the way of. A few years back, I had the pleasure of printing some 8x10 negatives from the provincial archives of some of the Indian chiefs who signed treaties with the Canadian government (Just sign here to sell your soul, then sit over there and have what is left stolen by our camera). Anyway, even with the old turn of the century nitrate plates, the quality from the negaites was fantastic. Enlarging takes a lot of the 3 dimensionality away from the resulting print, but you don't realize it until you see a contact from a large negative. William Robb
