What is the biggest b&w darkroom print you ever made?

[68degrees]

This kind of leads my mind to another question.

At only 8" x 10" would it make a difference if it was 35mm or 6x9,6x6 etc? At what print size would it be noticeable for a wall hung mounted photo?

 

[Roger Hicks]

This kind of leads my mind to another question.

At only 8" x 10" would it make a difference if it was 35mm or 6x9,6x6 etc? At what print size would it be noticeable for a wall hung mounted photo?

Depends on the film, the developer, the exposure, the development, the photographer's skill, the paper...

As a rule of thumb, differences from a contact print start to become apparent at about 3x enlargement.

As for the biggest print I ever made, I think it was about 40x60 inches. The developing "tray" was heavy agricultural polythene laid over battens on the floor; developer and fixer swabbed on with a sponge; washing in the garden with a hose...

Cheers,

R.

 

[Moto-Uno]

My limited experience with enlarging originally had me wondering about all the remarks I'd
read concerning tone, grain, etc., from 35mm negs. At that time I was only doing 8x10 (it seemed pretty big after 5x7) and really, I wasn't noticing all these alleged shortcoming. The wake up call came when I went to 11 x 14 ! I made enlargements from 35mm,6x4.5,6x9 & 4x5, and every single increase in negative size brought improvements to the range of visible tones. Peter

 

[68degrees]

My limited experience with enlarging originally had me wondering about all the remarks I'd
read concerning tone, grain, etc., from 35mm negs. At that time I was only doing 8x10 (it seemed pretty big after 5x7) and really, I wasn't noticing all these alleged shortcoming. The wake up call came when I went to 11 x 14 ! I made enlargements from 35mm,6x4.5,6x9 & 4x5, and every single increase in negative size brought improvements to the range of visible tones. Peter

so you saw noticeable improvements in your 11 x 14 prints when you went from 6x9 negatives to 4x5 negatives?

 

[68degrees]

he charges 90,000 for a 52x76" print
http://www.clydebutcher.com/image/50

Im going to stop by his gallery tomorrow and look at these titanic images. They are open 10-4

Just got back from Clydes gallery. I found out its just walking distance from my house! Lucky enough he was actually there. Talked to him for about an hour one on one, I asked if I could see the darkroom and he took me back there and explained his entire process. His photography is amazing to say the least. His workshop is simply other worldly. All these enlargers and cameras look like they are on steroids. That one camera he has looks like the negative must be about 2 feet wide. I asked him numerous questions and he answered them all. Very educational. What an amazing individual.

Here are two pics of my dad and clyde and his super enlarger he makes 9 feet wide prints with.

 

[Canyongazer]

Roughly 4'x6', RC roll paper.
Developed in a sink.
Bucket of developer, four sponges.
Rinse print and sink.
Fix in same sink, bucket of fix, four sponges.
Rinse. Hang.

Disclosure---I had three assistants.

Toughest part was focusing the enlarger (horizontally configured) Difficult to get center and all four corners sharp.