Where can one get a print made from a 2-1/4 x 33 inch negative?

In an e-mail regarding her earlier post, Lorraine gave a clearer

explanation of what she did:<P>

 

 

"<I>I have a Holga through which I shot a series of images without

quite moving the film forward to the next frame. hence, what I end up

with is a 120-length panoramic.</I>"<P>

 

That means a 2-1/4 x 33 inch negative. A contact print should not be

too much of a problem, but how could the film be enlarged? Like 5 x

74 inches or even really big 10 x 148 inches (12+ feet).

Probably scan it (in sections if required), piece it together, print it.

 

An alternate approach- it's really not a panoramic, it's a bunch of overlapping frames, I assume? Why not take the images as separate frames, then overlap them in the printing?

I have a friend (Jodie Olson) who used to do this, maybe still does, lost track of her when I moved out of NYC. I think that she normally printed them in overlaping sections and trimed the sections to match afterwards.

I think really big prints are often made in sections. I went to an Annie Liebovitz exhibition in NYC and many of the large prints (up to maybe 8-10ft) were clearly made in sections and pasted together. Viewed from a distance of a few feet, the seams were pretty obvious, but from 10-12 ft back you didn't notice them.

 

I doubt there's an enlarger in existance that can cope with a 33 inch negative in one shot. Scanning or enlarging and printing in sections is about the only practical route.

This calls for a <a href="http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-strip-enlarger.html">strip enlarger</a>. A strip enlarger is a device which moves

the negative and the paper simultaneously in a coordinated

fashion, exposing a strip at a time, like those rotating

lens panoramic cameras. Given enough time, it can

enlarge a photo of arbitrary length.