God, Bill!! Thanks for the great laugh! In the common usage, "Been there, done that!" I worked as a late teen, before joining the Navy, for an industrial photographer in Mobile. We processed several large aerial prints that he had sold to customers just as you describe, except he did have a basement with a drain. That was when I discovered that hypo would cure atheletes foot!
Walt On 6/28/08, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anthony Farr" > Subject: RE: Sensor resolution V focal length.......... > > > > > > > It's been many years since I made a giant enlargement, and only ever type C > > or silver gelatin, never inkjet. I don't miss doing them. > > I friend and I were going through the old stock area of the camera store he > worked at. > This was years ago, in the early 70s. > We found some 60" rolls of some Kodak B&W paper, so we decided to make some > REALLY BIG PRINTS. > We stapled the paper to the wall of his dad's fairly recently renovated > basement, set up a 35mm > enlarger across the room and tipped it's head to point at the wall, and > proceded to make a 5x9 > foot print. > We should have used larger film, the exposure was somewhere in the range of > an hour, IIRC, and > we were left with the problem on processing it. > > Several gallons of chemistry were applied with mops, the print now being > directly on the cement > floor, and we still had the problem of washing it. A backyard pool would have > been nice, but we > had to be satisfied with rolling it out on the back lawn (which recovered > eventually), ans > spraying it with a garden hose for an hour. > > Today, I would say that the results were not worth the effort, but when you > are 16...... > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
