mcbastian
Hello!
I have a beautiful and (to me) valuable black-and-white negative here.
But I now need the whole thing as a slide. I don’t want to do anything to the negative itself (re-develop it or anything like that).
My idea was as follows:
I’ll simply contact print the negative onto film. That might be quite a fiddly job in the darkroom,
but in principle it should be doable, shouldn’t it?
The question is, though, whether the material will cooperate. The negative material is grey-tinted, after all.
I reckon that’ll take quite a bit away from the shadows (on the positive). And the shadows aren’t exactly
opaque.
Has anyone had any experience with this before? Or is it really better to put it through a large-format processor?
Regards, Sebastian
Gast
Hi Sebastian,
It should work. I’ve never actually done exactly that, but I do enlarge slides (XP2 cross) onto film as internegatives for cyanotypes. It works.
The problem is simply finding the right exposure and gradient. But what else can you do with a partially used 35mm film roll, apart from a test series? Ultimately, you just have to tweak both until the tonal range and gradient match your expectations. Then the grey support in the positive will turn properly black too.
Regards
Martin
