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  1. Since this seems to have generated a little follow-up conversation, I'll respond. First, I have no experience with contact prints. I understand the theory, but I grew up with exposures. Not being a professional, or even a practicing, photographer myself, contact prints remain the great unknown to me, and my natural inclination for something so valuable to me is to stick with what I know to work. More importantly, and correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be true that the detail of the subject might just be more readily visible in a larger print, rather than a 4x5 or billfold size? I view this as creating a first-generation image that will be subject to subsequent reproduction, which will doubtless reduce both the size and quality, so why shouldn't I want to start with the best-available chance to get the best image I can? That's why I want an 8x10 to start.
  2. Need exposures on glossy paper. Desired publication quality.
  3. Hi all, I had posted this in a general forum, and got the suggestion to try here. I inherited a stack of 8x10 B&W negatives from my father's days in the South Pacific in WW2. One puzzler is that there are four images per sheet. They all appear to be original exposures, not a copy job. While I do not understand how that may have been done, my real question is finding someone with an 8x10 enlarger who can make me glossy prints. My attempts at scanning and inverting the images look really bad, so I'm thinking prints are a better option, unless I'm just a failure at scanning. Dad operated his own studio from the 1940s through the 1980s and was lucky enough to work as a photographer in WW2 as well. Many of these prints are in his scrapbooks, but those prints are 75 years old, so I would like some new ones. My ideal would be someone in the Atlanta area or the southeast US in driving distance that I could make connections. Any ideas you have will be much appreciated. Thanks!
  4. I'd like the answer to that one myself. I can imagine a rotating lens that would expose on the selected piece of film, but don't know of that is reasonable OR if it would be available in the Army Air Force in 1944! On the other hand, who else for the advanced technology other than the military?
  5. Sound like a reasonable idea, and should work for virtually all of them -- IF anyone has the equipment! I agree on how likely it is. I'm just exploring what's possible. Sadly, I didn't keep dad's enlargers. He may have had an 8x10 holder with one of them, but his studio work was all with the more obvious 4x5. He never worked in color, but Mom did oil tinting. I started splashing hypo in his darkroom when I was 5. My contribution to the family business. Thanks!
  6. Moderator Note - moved from "Film and Processing" to "Large Format" - My father was a professional from the 1940s through the 1980s, in addition to during his service in WW2. I have a couple dozen 8x10 negatives from 1944-45 in the South Pacific with four images to each one. I want to get an 8X10 glossy of each of the four images on each negative, more or less 100 prints. Exposures, not scans! Who can put me in touch with someone in the Atlanta area, or the SE United States in general, who has the equipment and interest to do that for me? Many thanks for your help!
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