Photographic Enlargers: Large Format Negative Carriers

Video Transcript

"I am holding a four by five large format negative carrier. This carrier, you open it up, you place your negative correctly in here. And again, you want everything to match up nicely. Puzzle. Notches towards the back. It would go into the enlarger. And, one thing that I have in this darkroom that is really interesting is a four by five glass carrier. Now, I use this for a couple of different reasons. One, when you are printing from a four by five negative, because that negative is so big, even though we have the heat glass in place there is still a little bit of a possibility of that negative getting so hot that it buckles. And, that is something you really want to avoid. So, with this glass it is so heavy that it keeps the negative flush. One other great thing about these glass negative carriers is that you can print a composite. I spoke a little earlier about that. Where I can put a number of thirty-five millimeter negatives, two-two and a quarter negatives in there, and print the images sandwiched so to speak. Side by side, or on top of each other. It is a great creative tool in a darkroom."