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something I wondered about a long time ago

Postby dave the german » Wed Apr 08, 2015 3:54 am

Many moons ago when I was into photography, I was into taking pics at gigs. Some of the pics I'd taken were with fast film so enlargement size was limited because of the grain. I thought I had come up with a solution but didn't have the funds to try it out - the idea was to use a highish speed slide film and then copy it with a slow speed slide film and make the enlargement with the slow speed film. Would it work?
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Re: something I wondered about a long time ago

Postby bigblackfalco » Sun Apr 12, 2015 2:37 pm

dave the german wrote:Many moons ago when I was into photography, I was into taking pics at gigs. Some of the pics I'd taken were with fast film so enlargement size was limited because of the grain. I thought I had come up with a solution but didn't have the funds to try it out - the idea was to use a highish speed slide film and then copy it with a slow speed slide film and make the enlargement with the slow speed film. Would it work?

No, the slow speed film only takes a fine grain version of the high speed grainy version. You'd still have grain!
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Postby dave the german » Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:05 pm

I thought that too but part of me thought that by doing it with a slide copier the grain wouldn't be "large" and the grain is a part of the film? so with a slower slide it wouldn't show. Always preferred this side of photography to taking the pics which I cannot do to save my life!! Had some fun using Barfin liquid emulsion and putting images on canvas/plates etc
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