Making B&W prints from Kodachrome Transparencies?

[kenneth]

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I tried making b&w photos from slides in the wet darkroom.

 

First expose slide to the paper. (you now have negative image on the paper)

 

Than put the exposed paper on the top of unexposed one and turn on the light. Papers should face each other with glossy side.

 

Develop as usual.

 

Down side is that you need two papers to make one image..and possibly some lack of sharpness. Of course,..both papers must be completely clean and dry.

 

Thank you I will give it a try

[andybarton]

That means that, basically, you are making an inter-negative from a normal sheet of paper, then doing a contact print from that paper.

 

Buying some reversal B&W paper has to be a better way to go.

 

God only knows how you'd control contrast, burning in and holding back etc, if you used the paper method.

[kenneth]

That means that, basically, you are making an inter-negative from a normal sheet of paper, then doing a contact print from that paper.

 

Buying some reversal B&W paper has to be a better way to go.

 

God only knows how you'd control contrast, burning in and holding back etc, if you used the paper method.

 

Andy, the more I explore the more I think that the Leica 16511 Copy Stand used in conjunction with a light box is the best way to go. It offers magnification of 1.1 to 1.3 and comes with a focus finder and is ideally suitable for a 50mm Summicron and an M6. Brian Bower recommends it in his book Leica M photography- David&Charles page 92 and Theo Scheerer also sings it's praises in his earlier book The Leica and the Leica System-Fountain Press page 82. All I need to do now is find one. I have found a picture of one and I will try to post it

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