Shutterbug57

I am wondering how many folks are still doing contact prints. I have found that I can shoot the negs with my iPad, then invert the screen to see a positive image. These are much larger than the negative, so much easier to see. This tells me what I want to know, what to print without using a sheet of photo paper. The down side is there is slightly less clarity and there is no contact print to store with the negs.

If you are still using the traditional darkroom, are you doing contact prints or have you inserted a digital solution into the process?

ETA - the image shown here fills my iPad screen in the photo viewer. Yes, that image is over exposed. I was testing out a new (to me) metered finder and found it is about 2.5 stops off.

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toxdoc42

Has anyone a technique to make contact sheets of digital photos?

Shutterbug57

For viewing or printing? For viewing, the Lightroom grid view is essentially a contact sheet. For printing, you could do a screen grab and print it.

toxdoc42

I haven't bitten the bullet for LR yet. I am looking for software to automatically produce 20 or 36 exposure contact sheets so I can review them and decide which to print.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Many editing packages offer a matrix or grid view - much better than a contact print, more flexible, and no need to print and waste ink and paper. Lr is not something that is painful that you have to bite a bullet for - it works extremely well, and addresses the needs of amateurs, students and professionals alike. Not getting Lr, On1, Photoshop, Capture One, etc etc etc is a lot more like biting a bullet.

Shutterbug57

Back to the thread topic, how are you determining what real (film) photo negatives get printed on chemically-processed photo paper? What is/are your intermediary step(s)?

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

If you work from Windows, you can do this. Not sure it's 20-36 per page, but it's a lot per page. I do this frequently when I want to show someone some shots of a recent trip or outing. It's one of the selections on the Windows print screen. You have to select several images to print, then select the contact sheet option.