Hi. I'm fairly new in photography, so please pardon me if i ask something stupid. How do i produce the negative image on paper withour using diapositive film?

-- Damjan Janev (damjanev@pmf.ukim.edu.mk), April 25, 2000

Answers

Hi Damjan,

You need a large format camera in which you substitute a - let's say 4x5 inch piece of sheet film - with a like size piece of enlarging paper. Or you can make a pinhole camera out of any light tight container & stick a piece of enlarging paper in it.

chris

-- Christian Harkness (chris.harkness@eudoramail.com), April 25, 2000.

There is an easier way: Make a normal print and contact copy that on another sheet of paper.

-- Thomas Wollstein (thomas_wollstein@web.de), April 26, 2000.

Thanks. One more thing. It's easy to make contact copies from the negative (and first of all semitransparent) film, but how do i make contact copies from the totally untransparent enlarger paper?

-- Damjan Janev (damjanev@pmf.ukim.edu.mk), April 26, 2000.

It isn't totally transparent. Take a photograph, and look at it from the back, holding it up to a light. You should be able to see the image.

So you can contact-print it to another sheet.

-- Alan Gibson (Alan@snibgo.com), April 26, 2000.