Dear Andrea, thank you fro the above, very educational. how does one pre-flash? I'm unable to see the links to your social media - please add them to the description above
Hi Luke, thank you for watching! How do one pre-flash? Easy. You run a test strip on part of a sheet (the other needs to be un-exposed for comparison) with very dim light and short exposure time, strips of 1 second, for example. The iris must be closed to the minimum aperture end you may also need to set the enlarger to maximun height (the latter depending on the brightness of your system). The you develop normally (or a little longer). The maximun pre-flash time is the longer exposure that produces NO density on the paper. I hope to make a tutorial on this topic soon, stay tuned!
grazie per l'intéressante vidéo, ma mediamente quanti fogli usi per fare un contact sheet ? a me spaventa sempre per il costo esorbitante. usi una carta speciale per farli ? quella della foma non la conosco. grazie
Ciao. Grazie del commento. La fotografia analogica è purtroppo costosa, MA si può risparmiare moltissimo lavorando con intelligenza e precisione. Per i contatti, per esempio, se si usa una stessa pellicola, uno sviluppo e una carta, una volta che si sono fatte le prove, con i tentativi che servono, si manterranno sempre le stesse impostazioni, usando alla fine sono un foglio di carta per ogni provino. Per i provini a contatto uso la carta Foma che vedi nel video, che oltre ad essere perfetta per lo scopo, è anche meno costosa di altre.
Andrea, a well-considered explanation of one approach to making contacts. My experience, as an English-speaker (American) was the following: The closed captioning in English was way behind you and therefore almost of no use. while I have a fair amount of experience listening to Europeans-- French, German, Italian -- speaking my native tongue, I had some difficulty following your commentary in this video; the audio sounded somewhat lacking in the high frequencies. It coulc be just a combination of my speakers and my ears, but I thought I'd mention it. It's unfortunate that a couple of the shots of contact sheets were out of focus, although others were nice and sharp. It made it a bit more difficult to judge. Someone commenting below asked what pre-flashing is. Perhaps you intended not to explain it, but, with all due respect, it seems to me that when we present basics, we need to assume that our students need to understand the relevant details. For those of us who love the film and silver print process and are delighted to see the continuing growth in new interest, I think it's great that you are sharing your expertise here. Ciao!
Hello Philip! Thank you very much for your accurate review! It is helpful! I can try to resinc the captions (I am still not very good with that part of youtube). Audio quality is poor, I know, we need a little more care and also some tools (new mic and decent monitor speakers), those are planned, but funds comes slowly in. Those out of focus shots.... sorry. As for pre-flashing, or chosing contrast, they need a video of their own. For the contrast part is there and the link is in the video, the pre-flash tutorial is planned and I hope I will have the time to do it soon!
Thank you for watching! Pre-flashing the contact sheets really helps in making them look more like actual enlarged prints, and helps also in making contact printing easier.
Super helpful. Was just making contact sheets yesterday, and this makes great common sense as a target to shoot for. Your videos are awesome. Thanks!
Thank you for watching! I'm glad to have been useful!
Preziose informazioni!
MI fa piacere essere utile. Grazie.
Grazie Andrea! Bellissima anche la foto di Marcello Galvani dietro di te 🤩
Figurati. Mi fa piacere ti sia utile. Sì, la foto è bella. Marcello è molto bravo.
Informazione molto utile
Grazie per aver condiviso
Grazie a te!
Ottimo, come sempre.
Grazie!
Very useful and intresting informations! Thanks
Thank you for watching! I'm glad you found it useful.
Dear Andrea, thank you fro the above, very educational. how does one pre-flash?
I'm unable to see the links to your social media - please add them to the description above
Hi Luke, thank you for watching!
How do one pre-flash?
Easy. You run a test strip on part of a sheet (the other needs to be un-exposed for comparison) with very dim light and short exposure time, strips of 1 second, for example.
The iris must be closed to the minimum aperture end you may also need to set the enlarger to maximun height (the latter depending on the brightness of your system). The you develop normally (or a little longer). The maximun pre-flash time is the longer exposure that produces NO density on the paper.
I hope to make a tutorial on this topic soon, stay tuned!
Links added. Thank you for the suggestion.
grazie per l'intéressante vidéo, ma mediamente quanti fogli usi per fare un contact sheet ?
a me spaventa sempre per il costo esorbitante. usi una carta speciale per farli ? quella della foma non la conosco.
grazie
Ciao. Grazie del commento.
La fotografia analogica è purtroppo costosa, MA si può risparmiare moltissimo lavorando con intelligenza e precisione. Per i contatti, per esempio, se si usa una stessa pellicola, uno sviluppo e una carta, una volta che si sono fatte le prove, con i tentativi che servono, si manterranno sempre le stesse impostazioni, usando alla fine sono un foglio di carta per ogni provino.
Per i provini a contatto uso la carta Foma che vedi nel video, che oltre ad essere perfetta per lo scopo, è anche meno costosa di altre.
Andrea, a well-considered explanation of one approach to making contacts. My experience, as an English-speaker (American) was the following:
The closed captioning in English was way behind you and therefore almost of no use. while I have a fair amount of experience listening to Europeans-- French, German, Italian -- speaking my native tongue, I had some difficulty following your commentary in this video; the audio sounded somewhat lacking in the high frequencies. It coulc be just a combination of my speakers and my ears, but I thought I'd mention it.
It's unfortunate that a couple of the shots of contact sheets were out of focus, although others were nice and sharp. It made it a bit more difficult to judge.
Someone commenting below asked what pre-flashing is. Perhaps you intended not to explain it, but, with all due respect, it seems to me that when we present basics, we need to assume that our students need to understand the relevant details.
For those of us who love the film and silver print process and are delighted to see the continuing growth in new interest, I think it's great that you are sharing your expertise here. Ciao!
Hello Philip! Thank you very much for your accurate review!
It is helpful!
I can try to resinc the captions (I am still not very good with that part of youtube).
Audio quality is poor, I know, we need a little more care and also some tools (new mic and decent monitor speakers), those are planned, but funds comes slowly in.
Those out of focus shots.... sorry.
As for pre-flashing, or chosing contrast, they need a video of their own. For the contrast part is there and the link is in the video, the pre-flash tutorial is planned and I hope I will have the time to do it soon!
Thank you for that. It did not occur to me before to preflash for a contact sheet.
Thank you for watching!
Pre-flashing the contact sheets really helps in making them look more like actual enlarged prints, and helps also in making contact printing easier.