[LargeFormat] Re: Giant pinhole contact print

[Marco Milazzo]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Glorieux" <guy.glorieux@sympatico.ca>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Giant pinhole contact print


> Hi Mark,
>
> We used the paper negative route to get the initial image because I'm
> more familiar with that process than using lithographic film processed
> in diluted Dektol.

Doesn't litho film developed in Dektol also give a rather harsh negative
with little graduation of tones?   If so, why is it frequently used for
pinhole photographs -- which (it seems to me), are usually too contrasty to
begin with?

Marco
El Paso, Texas