How do you display your chromes?

[Mats_A]

I have a question to all LF-shooters. There are projectors for 35mm and 6x6 slides. What about 4x5, 5x7 or 8x10 slides. How do you display them? Are they forever doomed to be admired on a light table? Do you scan them and make paper copies? Are there any "mini light tables" that goes on the wall, perhaps with an enlarger and built in illumination? Like an analog version of the digital frame.

Am thinking about getting an LF-camera and I understand what to do with my B&W pictures but the beautiful Velvias I will (hopefully) make, what will I do with them?

r

[pgomena]

I don't make chromes anymore. They have become too expensive for me, and there are fewer and fewer labs to process them. If I did, I would reproduce them by digital means, which is what I do with the small amount of color negative film I do use. Be careful, displaying them on a light table eventually will cause them to fade. If you do want to display them on a "light table", I would scan them and broadcast them to a big flat screen TV, or use digital technology to create an enlarged transparency. It makes me sad to see transparencies becoming less used. I grew up with them.

Peter Gomena

[tim k]

Print em big, and hang em on your wall.

[Ian Grant]

I used to get them printed, as R3's on Fuji paper but now that option is gone I'll probably switch to Ektar and go down the C41 route for future colour projects, as I do my own RA-4 printing..

Ian

[Sanjay Sen]

I shoot a bit of chrome in 4x5 (not anything bigger yet). Mine are "doomed to be admired on a light table". I plan to get them scanned by a lab for displaying on the web, and did get a couple of Chromira prints from those that I really liked.

I do hope to get some printed traditionally while that process is still available.

[keithwms]

I have some big lightboxes, they are abundant in my (physics) dept. You could also look for the ones docs use to look at xray images. You could also make your own LF projector.

I do get lightjet/chromira prints done now and then, they can be quite successful at very large enlargement. For example, I think I have done something like 48" width from a 5x7 slide. I am sure my next comment will ruffle some feathers but, these prints stack up extremely well to cibas/ilfos that I have seen and require no contrast masking... and there is zero loss of detail due to intermediate lensing, if you have your scans done with a drum. Hence I haven't even bothered to do ilfos myself. All I am saying is that lightjet/chromira use photopaper and provide me with affordable large prints with high impact. (And, personally I find lightjet/chromira unsuitable for b&w, but that is another story.)

[MattKing]

Someone here on APUG recently posted that they liked to use an overhead projector to show 8x10 transparencies.

Matt

[keithwms]

Yes, well, they make those cheap craft store projectors; you can probably put a slide on a light table and use one of those...

[erikg]

Ciba trans used to be awesome for this. There are some great little light boxes out there, and they are easy to make. I've built a few for exhibitions in the past, although the last ones I built were for some b&w trans done on kodalith, I'll miss that stuff too.

[jnanian]

i over expose them a little and magnet them to the white fridge!
having them in a clear frame in a window so they illuminate with the sun ( like stained glass ) works well too ...