William: Great story! You should write that up & try to publish the story in an appropriate magazine. Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 10:16 AM Subject: Big Prints: Re: Sensor resolution V focal length.......... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anthony Farr" > Subject: RE: Sensor resolution V focal length.......... > > > >> >> It's been many years since I made a giant enlargement, and only ever type >> C >> or silver gelatin, never inkjet. I don't miss doing them. > > I friend and I were going through the old stock area of the camera store > he worked at. > This was years ago, in the early 70s. > We found some 60" rolls of some Kodak B&W paper, so we decided to make > some REALLY BIG PRINTS. > We stapled the paper to the wall of his dad's fairly recently renovated > basement, set up a 35mm > enlarger across the room and tipped it's head to point at the wall, and > proceded to make a 5x9 > foot print. > We should have used larger film, the exposure was somewhere in the range > of an hour, IIRC, and > we were left with the problem on processing it. > > Several gallons of chemistry were applied with mops, the print now being > directly on the cement > floor, and we still had the problem of washing it. A backyard pool would > have been nice, but we > had to be satisfied with rolling it out on the back lawn (which recovered > eventually), ans > spraying it with a garden hose for an hour. > > Today, I would say that the results were not worth the effort, but when > you are 16...... > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
