Tuesday, 12 May 2015

Contact Printing

Contact Printing

To make a contact sheet
Place negative strip in the contact sheet matt side up holder.
Place photographic paper on the spange part with the glass on top.

Timer has 2 switches (bigger button).
i.e. 5 seconds.
Light so that you can set up the enlarger.
Side of the enlarger has a lens to change the aperture -set it at F4.
Set colours as yellow 30, magenta 90, blue/cyan 0.

Test Strip
Place photographic paper shiny side up.
Under the negatives in the contact sheet holder.
Cover the strip with card and move along afer 5 seconds
25 secs, 20 secs, 15 secs, 10 secs and 5 secs.
25 seconds was the best exposure.
Make a strip with a 25 second sxposure.

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