Transfer a digital photo on film?

I have a photo made with a digital camera and would like to make a traditional b&w neg. from it in order to print from my enlarger. or simply can I make this file physical? any suggestions?

by Tiane Doan Na Champassak at Sat May 19 10:13:59 UTC 2007 (ed. Mar 12 2008) Paris, France | Bookmark this | Digg this |

Pro labs can do this but it is very expencive. I inquired once in Tokyo and it was beyond rediculous.

by Nathan Shanahan | 19 May 2007 11:05 | Tokyo, Japan |

Most high end photo labs have (or had) devices that wrote digital files to 4×5 ot 8×10 film. My experience with these was about 7 years ago, and with the level of acceptance of digital files, they may have gone our of fashion. You might call around to the pro Paris labs.

by Peter Calvin | 19 May 2007 11:05 | Dallas, Texas, United States |

In Baltimore, they used to do it relatively routinely. The cost depends on the size of film you want to make. The size of digital files required depends on the size of film you want.

Inquire the lab in Paris or google for negative output, 4K, etc. The negative output is more expensive than slide output for 35mm, and it costs USD$10 per image. Digital film recorder will do the actual work. Since you start out with digital files, you can have it done anywhere in the world as long as they are willing to ship the results back to you.

According to my lab catalog, they are not listing any prices for sizes other than 35mm.

In order to print from, you need to have sufficient-size files, otherwise, you end up seeing pixels.

Nowadays, if I want prints, I’ll have a lab make a print from digital files directly.

by Tomoko Yamamoto | 19 May 2007 19:05 | Baltimore, MD, United States |

Tiane,
I think Dupon will do it http://www.dupon.com/ (see “scan and shoot”). Best to give them a call on Monday…

by David Carr | 19 May 2007 19:05 | Paris, France |

This place has several options depending on the results you want to achieve:

http://www.pictorico.com/category/3-OHP-Transparency-Film.htm

Whatever you end up doing, I’d like to hear how it goes.

by Thorne Anderson | 22 May 2007 05:05 | Kabul, Afghanistan |

i’ve seen decent results of high-quality digital prints reproduced on technical pan or similar film. would probably take some fiddling to get it just right, though.

by Morten Hvaal | 22 May 2007 09:05 | Colombo, Sri Lanka |

You are looking for a lab that uses a Kodak LVT Rhino to record digital files at a very high dpi onto film.

A slide / negative made from a CRT based filmrecorder is not the same thing and inferior.

by Feli Di Giorgio | 22 May 2007 11:05 | London, United Kingdom |

If you really want to sink your teeth into is, you can purchase a film recorder, for example from here:

http://www.promarketinc.com/specials/index.html

by md | 22 May 2007 14:05 | Mpls/NYC, United States |