Color Contact Sheets- How?

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Le Grande Raoul - 27 Sep 2003 11:51 GMT

Hi:

I recently bought a Jobo processor mainly for doing C-41 and E-6 but
also am going to B&W in it.

I've always made B&W contact sheets. Pretty easy. Fiogure out the
best time onthe enlarger and away you go. I also have extensivly done
8x10 contact printing.

I'd like to do both types of contact printing with C-41 film (and, for
that matter, transparencies. Remember, I do 8x10, too.) The books I've
read on color printing mention how to determine basic exposure and clor
balance with enlarging but never with contact printing. Shopuld I
follow similar processes to find the proper exposure and filtering for
contact printing?

Jeff

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Gregory W. Blank - 27 Sep 2003 15:12 GMT

> Hi:
> Shopuld I follow similar processes to find the proper exposure
>and filtering for contact printing?
> Jeff

Yep.

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Herbert Kanner - 28 Sep 2003 02:20 GMT

> > Hi:
> > Shopuld I follow similar processes to find the proper exposure
> >and filtering for contact printing?
> > Jeff
>
> Yep.

If you use the enlarger as a light source, you can pretty much use the
same exposure and filtration as when enlarging. Patterson makes frames
for making contact proof sheets--the one I use is for 35 mm and will get
a 36-exposure roll, cut in strips of six, proofed on one 8 x 10 sheet of
paper. I also have a frame for making contacts of mounted slides. This
came from Ilford (Ciba) and, because of the frame size of the mounted
slides, did some number less than 36 on one sheet of Ilfochome. I don't
remember the exact number, something around 30, I think.

Herb

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