[PRCo] Re: 616 negatives

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Bob:

Are the Qualex black and white prints machine made or hand made?  The
machines print onto rolls of paper (3 1/2 inches wide, 5 inches wide or
8 inches wide and permit not printing controls, i.e. dodging (holding
back certain parts of the negative) or burning (darkening an area in
relation to the rest).  Of course, hand made prints with an enlarger
allow all sorts of controls, not just those I mentioned but even masking
(you could sandwich the negative with a separate piece of film stock on
which red dye has been placed to lighten certain small details).  This
is a technique I've used to lighten trucks under cars.  

Fred

Bob Rathke wrote:
> 
> I continue to get B&W prints made from 616, 120, 4X5" and other large format negatives
> through a camera store here.  They send them to the Qualex (Kodak) Custom Lab. I know
> of several stores in the Chicago suburbs that use the Qualex lab.  It takes about 10
> days, and the B&W prints cost more than comparable size Kodacolor prints, but the
> results are good.
> 
> Bob 8/2/01
> 
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> 
> "Fred W. Schneider III" wrote:
> 
> > He used to trade prints with scads of people.  Unfortunately, A) there
> > is no longer a camera store in Pittston; B) Kodak no longer makes
> > contact papers for 616 size negatives, 3) Kodak no longer makes any
> > contact papers except in a very limited number of contrast grades (2 and
> > 3 or 2, 3 and 4) -- the very high contrast and low contrast papers have
> > joined the dinosaurs; C) Non one has made 616 and 116 film for thirty
> > years, and other tools that went with it, such as negative carriers for
> > enlargers and printing machines are no longer manufactured.  This simply
> > means that you cannot take a 616 negative to your local camera store and
> > even get it printed any longer And people like myself who can handle
> > them are getting older and more tired.