kex said:hi student,
i'm asking out of curiousity,wouldn't it easier to just enlarge the scala to 8x10 or larger than doing a dupe with the bergger film ?
i have not try B&W internegative b4 but duplication from my past color internegative always seems more contrasty and lose abit of sharpness..
What I a doing is not making Bergger dupes of the Scala, but making enlarged negatives to 8x10 or larger. Just finished making two such negatives. Damn! Too dense, even for the platinum print! Just ran out of my Bergger BPFP-18.
I use the Scala as an interpositive. This the main advantage of using scala. With a negative, you need to make a soft internegative (or more accurately, an interpositive) and then using this interpositive to make a big negative. Very troublesome! And dust accumulate everywhere! With the scala you skip the middle step.
