Printing Photos from a 4 x 5 Negative

Video Transcript

"My name is Anthony Maddaloni, I'm a professional photographer from Austin Texas. I'm going to be talking about making contact prints from 4x5 negatives. This is a 4x5 negative, from my 4x5 view camera. This is a print that I've made from a negative. Now if you look at this print, you can see that it is obviously from a 4x5 negative. The telltale notches are there. I can see exactly how this image was made. Now this is a contact image made from a 4x5 negative. It's a cyanotype, it's toned in tea. And now when I'm using my 4x5 negatives, this is a great way for me to use them. I can make enlargements in the dark room, or I can make contact prints with an alternative printing process. Especially a process like this where my image is only going to be as big as my negative. Now that's not to say that I can't use a medium format negative, 2 1/4, 6x7, or even a 35mm negative to make a beautiful image. But I really want to see my image, and I find that 4x5 negative works just about perfectly for someone to look at it. And so that's one reason why I still use 4x5 camera."