[LargeFormat] Contact frame
Ken Hough
largeformat@f32.net
Sat Jun 15 00:19:22 2002
Dear Uncle Dick
3/8 in plate glass is fine. The secret is the backing. Remember the old
contact frames that squeesed everything together? The felt had no "give".
Neither should your backing. I contact print 14x17 with a 16x20 sheet of
glass and a piece of indoor / outdoor industrial carpet as a backing.
There is no room for air pockets to cause the blurrieness of the image.
Ken
From: "rstein" <rstein@bigpond.net.au>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Contact frame
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Date sent: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:17:05 +0800
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Dear Lee,
Yes, it really is my name, and yes, I really am an uncle - to an
increasingly nervous set of nephews and nieces. I am the sort of uncle who
fills their children up with red food colouring, starts a game of cowboys
and indians with real bows and arrows and then leaves. I am good for
Christmas presents but the ones I give generally make noise or need
hard-to-obtain batteries.
I have tried thick glass but I don't seem to be able the get the sort of
close contact between negative and paper that the 4 x 5 frame provides -
there seem to be areas 'out of focus' as it were. I think I need more back
pressure.
Uncle Dick
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