Most affordable place for contact printing 120?


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alvin

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I asked around the peninsula/bugis area and the best I could find was Ruby, 10 bucks for contact printing B&W 120 film. Oddly enough, it's 10 bucks whether you develop it yourself or they do it for you. Any places between the west and central that offers such services at a lower price? I develop B&W myself now, so I'm trying to cut cost. Else, I might as well just hand in the negatives for them to process and forgo the chemicals.

Basically all I want is a index print of my B&W 120 negatives. I do not need true contact printing.

Thanks for any advice!

Regards,
Alvin
 

If you just need index printing why not scan then in yourself? 120 rollfilm is big enough to be put on any flatbed scanner, use a bright fluorescent and some tracing paper on top to light up the negs.....OR, since you already work with chemicals, why not make the contacts yourself? You won't need an enlarger, just a lamp will do. I use a clean glassplate to keep negs flat on top of the paper and switch on the lights of the room for several seconds...experiment how long exposures you need with the type of lamp you have in the room.

Hong Sien
 

Hmm that is a great idea! I will try it out. I can probably like invert my light panel on my scanner....

Right now I don't have a dark room, just enough equipment to process B&W films!

Thanks man!

Regards,
Alvin
 

ya loh..
contact printing is the easiest print to do,u can try to cover ur windows with ur comforter and use some towel to fill in the gap of ur door.
then get a piece of glass frame a 10R frame ready and arrange the negs on the paper 3 frames a row under the safe light,place the glass over it,use another card bigger then the glass and cover 1/5 of the paper,turn on ur room lights and move to the 2/5 then following in intervals of 5sec(up to u) then off the lights but leave the safelight on.
u can then develop the paper in the developer according to the recommended time,then transfer to another tray of water with one cap of white vinegar (stop bath)
for maybe 10secs.. then transfer to another tray of fixer for 20sec or so..and u can turn on the room lights fixing time is ard 6mins..
after fixing,wash the print by soaking in water for 10-20mins(up to you) and hang dry..
whole process minus washing time usually takes ard 10mins..
 

the interval exposing of paper is to help u determine the best exposure time for ur room lights,after getting the time,stick to it and dun change the distance between the paper and ur lamp.

very easy one la..
 

Hmm interesting... seems like something possible to be done in the loo... :P

Curiously, how much is the paper cost?

Alvin
 

paper is cheap until u want to luff.kekekeke..

look for a guy with the nick fairprice in consumer corner,i got 10sheets of ilford 11x14 satin finish for $3+ nia..8R paper should be ard there..
 

Hi kex!
Thanks for the advice... anyway, I did a test run, putting my film on the scanner and my light panel above it to scan, I think it kinda works but the resolution is way too low for any usage, even web usage! My scanner's like 10 years old :P

Thanks again!

Alvin
 

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