ToP Classic (TPF Classic?)

photoguy99 · Nov 23, 2014

Please note today's ToP post:

The Online Photographer: TOP Classic: Voja Mitrovic, Printer to the Greats

Note especially the anecdote about Voja printing 80 negatives in 50 minutes, and then developing the lot. Bam. 80 good prints.

If you've ever worked in a darkroom you'll recognize this as a jaw dropping virtuoso performance.

gsgary · Nov 24, 2014

Check out Robin Bell also printer to the greats

photoguy99 · Nov 24, 2014

Or, let's talk about how great leicas are!

gsgary · Nov 24, 2014

Whats that got to do with it

photoguy99 · Nov 24, 2014

Exactly. It's like we're TWINS.

gsgary · Nov 24, 2014

I don't see how you could print 80 in 50 minutes, they must have been perfectly exposed and the same negative with no dodging and burning, theres loading the neg in the carrier, focusing it, each print takes 2-3 minutes in dev

photoguy99 · Nov 24, 2014

You could read the article. Or you could just read my post.

".... and then developing the lot."

would be the key phrase here.

gsgary · Nov 24, 2014

photoguy99 said:
You could read the article. Or you could just read my post.

".... and then developing the lot."

would be the key phrase here.

I've just read it, and you didn't read it properly when has 50 minutes been 1 hour

photoguy99 · Nov 24, 2014

"At 4 p.m., a tall, handsome man with a foreign accent, one of the printers in the lab—Voja—came to my enlarger and asked how it was going. [ ... ] At 4:50 pm, he took out 80 sheets of exposed photographic paper and went to the open developing tank. "

How long is it between 4pm and 4:50pm?

gsgary · Nov 24, 2014

And in 1 hour he printed the remaining 80 negatives

photoguy99 · Nov 24, 2014

Good lord, Gary. You are the very definition of a prat, and you're also wrong and I cannot believe we're even having this argument.

Lets' review what I said:

"Voja printing 80 negatives in 50 minutes and then developing the lot"

and now let's review what Peter said:

"printed them all in 1 hour" exposing them between 4 and 4:50, and then developing them.

Gosh, I said what Peter said. AMAZING. You can fuss, if you like, that "printing" isn't exposing, but since I explicitly broke out developing as a second step, I think my meaning is unambiguous and clear.

Prat.