I have been printing directly from digital files on B/W coated paper for two years using multigrade filters. The results I have obtained are very good.
People who do cyanotypes and other alt-processes do it all the time. The digital image is inverted - both in colour and orientation and printed onto a transparency. It's then contact printed.
Yep. That is my question. I've tried doing regular inkjet digital negs (Epson R3000) and contact printing on Ilford MG. Getting the curves right is a pain and I don't think these things would take being enlarged. Maybe I should try that. Might be fun. TBH: After a couple of days of struggle I decided I prefer good quality inkjet prints anyhow! Once the image is in the computer you might as well inkjet. They are probably more permanent (certainly if you don't do an archival selenium tone of the silver print they will be and who cares after about 100 years!) and most people would struggle to tell the difference when they are hung behind glass. I feel 100% analogue workflow for silver prints. Once it is in the computer go digital. Sorry, brain dump there...
Great process. I was planning to skip that and turn a 6 x 9 image on an iPhone mini and reverse it using "Classic Invert" and put the whole phone into the negative carrier area with (eventually) a custom-built wood phone holder/folder. The exposure times will be long, I know.
It's called film recording. In Santa Ana. There was a store on Harbor boulevard and Warner called Ritz camera shop. They used to offer those services. Back in the days. I get my work done in New Mexico now. At a very affordable price. A gentleman named Charlie.
Would like to know "how" rather than we "can"" . I've dabbled in alternative prints before and traditional dark room printing but when trying go get print a Digital image to a negative onto a transparency using a pigment based ink get printer and adjusted contrasts I've never got good results. This looks like you somehow expose a negative onto actual C41 film or something m more than just printing something out from an inkjet printer. I love shooting with film in the traditional manner but if taking photos of models that might have eyebags or need skin touch ups its a pain in the ass trying to do a print from a negative. Would love to be able to digitize me film negatives, make my skin edits to the resulting image, and then re-transfer back to a physical negative again.
Great process 👍 I have a question, I shoot with a Leica S (typ 007) and getting Icon to print a black and white print using your process just shown, what is the largest size print can you make? Thank you…
Thanks for watching and support our channel. To answer your question... The largest darkroom handprint we make is 20"x24". For color RC prints, the LightJet makes those bigger. Up to 46"x120"
Not if you you use a film recorder, usually they out resolve the film itself, and 4x5 film out resolves almost all comercial digital cameras (besides the newer phase one stuff i believe). So no, there isn’t that much loss of quality, and the one you get you trade it for smoother tinnality and more natural detail from the optical enlargement.
This is the same bullshit as scanning the negatives and then print them on printer, but from the opposite side. If you want to make darkroom prints, shoot film. If you want to make prints from printer, shoot digital.
A new video showing how you create the negative film for the enlarging process, from an original digital picture, could be great.
With a projector I guess.
I have been printing directly from digital files on B/W coated paper for two years using multigrade filters. The results I have obtained are very good.
I love Illford mate paper.... I miss so much the time I was a photographer at the 90´s...
Time to get back out there.
You didn't tell us the most important step: how to make a negative from a digital file, so nothing new
ok but how did you make the negative?
People who do cyanotypes and other alt-processes do it all the time. The digital image is inverted - both in colour and orientation and printed onto a transparency. It's then contact printed.
How are you guys making the negative? are you using something like a agfa alto film recorder?
Yep. That is my question. I've tried doing regular inkjet digital negs (Epson R3000) and contact printing on Ilford MG. Getting the curves right is a pain and I don't think these things would take being enlarged. Maybe I should try that. Might be fun. TBH: After a couple of days of struggle I decided I prefer good quality inkjet prints anyhow! Once the image is in the computer you might as well inkjet. They are probably more permanent (certainly if you don't do an archival selenium tone of the silver print they will be and who cares after about 100 years!) and most people would struggle to tell the difference when they are hung behind glass. I feel 100% analogue workflow for silver prints. Once it is in the computer go digital. Sorry, brain dump there...
Great process. I was planning to skip that and turn a 6 x 9 image on an iPhone mini and reverse it using "Classic Invert" and put the whole phone into the negative carrier area with (eventually) a custom-built wood phone holder/folder. The exposure times will be long, I know.
what brand is that lightbox table? or is that costum made? if so how do you go about it.
instead of making a negative cant you just project the digital image onto photographic paper and just skip the film?
Yes you can.
Would love to know more about your film recorder process. Which manufacturer are you using?
It's called film recording. In Santa Ana. There was a store on Harbor boulevard and Warner called Ritz camera shop. They used to offer those services. Back in the days. I get my work done in New Mexico now. At a very affordable price. A gentleman named Charlie.
Sad to say “ there was a store called “ Ritz”
@IconLA so once we have taken an image, what kind of editing do we need to do to prep the file to send to you to make the Negative?
Can you substitute a projector for the enlarger?
Why not create digital negative and then do contact print?
Would like to know "how" rather than we "can"" . I've dabbled in alternative prints before and traditional dark room printing but when trying go get print a Digital image to a negative onto a transparency using a pigment based ink get printer and adjusted contrasts I've never got good results. This looks like you somehow expose a negative onto actual C41 film or something m more than just printing something out from an inkjet printer. I love shooting with film in the traditional manner but if taking photos of models that might have eyebags or need skin touch ups its a pain in the ass trying to do a print from a negative. Would love to be able to digitize me film negatives, make my skin edits to the resulting image, and then re-transfer back to a physical negative again.
How do you create the digital negative.............
Sure, but how about making the negative? everything after that is well known.
Great process 👍 I have a question, I shoot with a Leica S (typ 007) and getting Icon to print a black and white print using your process just shown, what is the largest size print can you make? Thank you…
Thanks for watching and support our channel. To answer your question... The largest darkroom handprint we make is 20"x24". For color RC prints, the LightJet makes those bigger. Up to 46"x120"
how do you make film from digital file,no explanation!
Mmh, how to enlarge negatives has been known for a long time and by many.
But how to produce a digital negative is surely much more interesting...
Better video if he did the acctual process
Kinda pointless without explaining how you made the negative. There are lots of videos of how to print a negative in the darkroom.
We have another video on this coming soon.
How pointless. There has to be a loss of quality in producing a negative image from the digital file, so why not just print digitally!
Not if you you use a film recorder, usually they out resolve the film itself, and 4x5 film out resolves almost all comercial digital cameras (besides the newer phase one stuff i believe). So no, there isn’t that much loss of quality, and the one you get you trade it for smoother tinnality and more natural detail from the optical enlargement.
This is the same bullshit as scanning the negatives and then print them on printer, but from the opposite side.
If you want to make darkroom prints, shoot film.
If you want to make prints from printer, shoot digital.