Most of the time I print with my standard 35mm negative carrier in the
23CII. But I also have a universal anti-newton glass carrier that I
sometimes use, which allows the light to pass through the clear film and put
a black border around the print, thickness dependent on the easel
adjustment. But,
1. The 4 extra glass surfaces are a real pain to keep clean.
2. The perfect straight edge shows any linear distortion on the negative
border caused by your enlarging lens. And,
3. Too much additional light during the exposure can bounce off your easel,
worksurface, walls, and back onto the paper, fogging it and lowering
contrast.
But, that black border does look awfully cool.
Thanks,
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Sanfedele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: 100% finders
> > PAUL STENQUIST wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a film holder for my
> > > enlarger that I attacked with
> > > a die grinder to leave an
> > > irregular border that exposes
> > > some of the film edge.
> >
>
> She wrote:
>
> > I tried doing that once and ended up with a real messy
> > border. You're better skilled with such tools than I, it
> > seems. Imagine how happy I was to discover that Beseler makes
> > a full-frame carrier, which I was able to buy on eBay for
> > about $15.00
>
> What about this, guys... take one for a 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" (approx) and
> use the
> blades on the easel to put a nice neat black border around the full
> frame. I anticipate
> you saying too much light spill around from too much extra space but you
> could kind of
> sloppily mask that by taping a bit.
>
> I'm not too handy, either, and basically used a sharpie for the black
> border look. I
> wonder what terrible stuff I've done to some of my photos as a result
> but for the
> most part I haven't done it to the archivally processed stuff, just RC
> prints.
>
> annsan
>
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