Glass Plate Negative Questions

[Jobu]

Thanks Michael, that is helpful. In addition to Gary's questions, I also wonder how expensive it is to have a professional print made (a normal size, nothing 3' x 4').

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Jobu

Thanks Michael, that is helpful. In addition to Gary's questions, I also wonder how expensive it is to have a professional print made (a normal size, nothing 3' x 4').

Used to be most print shops would not touch glass negs for fear of damaging them. Now with digital technology it should be fairly easy to find somebody to do it fairly cheaply.

Basically once you have a high quality .jpg scan (I like saving at about 600-750 dpi), you can have prints made up almost anywhere. There are places on-line you can order large prints and even posters inexpensively if you provide them with the .jpg file.

[Joe_G.]

There was some good discussion on caring for negatives a little over a year ago here (see post #41).

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=200961