REQUIREMENT FOR PLATE ENLARGEMENTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 5, 1965
• Content Type: MF

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IPO/OSB/M-)+3/65
5 October 1965
MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant for Plans and Development, NPIC
SUBJECT: Requirement for Print Enlargements
REFERENCE: CPO/OSB/M-35/65, Dated 4 August 1965
1. The P&DS was contacted in response to a suggestion by
Deputy Director, NPIC, that the photo-
interpreters have available to him a means of enlarging dup-
licate positive transparencies. The referenced memorandum re-
quested P&DS to investigate the applicability of the enlarger
used by NRTSC for enlargement of transparencies. No formal
request for development was to be made until it was established
that no commerical. enlarger or government-sponsored equipment
was n6& available for our use.
were questioned concerning the availability of this
equipment on Wednesday, 25 August 1965. According to ~Is
the Naval Photographic Center now uses an enlarger but i
limited in format coverage to 70 mm film. Samples taken from
the duplicate positive transparencies were poor in quality.
stated that other samples that he had seen approached
the polaroid camera in resolution capabilities and that he
would try to get some samples for our evaluation. None have
been received to date. All of these negative prints, he stated,
were from duplicate positive transparencies. No capability for
duplicate positive-to-positive prints were available with this
equipment.
2. To further establish the type of enlarger that would be
of interest to the Photographic Analysis Group, the following
performance characteristics are desired:
a) Heat processed rather than chemical, although
this is not essential.
b) Dimensions should be such that small elevating
table mounting would not be inconvenient. This means ap-
proximately 2--feet by 3-feet and a depth not to exceed
2 feet.
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SUBJECT: Requirement for Print Enlargements
c) Magnification from seven to ten diameters.
d) Reproduction of print should be available from any
area on a 9 x 18 image format.
e) Image area to be reproduced is approximately two-
inches by three-inches maximum.
f) Resolution should be no less than 80 lines per mm
which is comparable to that obtained from polaroid photographs.
g) Gray-scale range from 0.10 to 2.0 would be desirable.
h) A rositive-to-positive print with a processing time
not to exceed 2-minute.
3. The Photographic Analysis Group would be interested in any
survey made by the Plans and Development Staff concerning the avail-L.
ability of a printer/processor that would enable confirmation of
data with the possibility of additional interpretable data being
available from the enlarged prints. A saving in time would be
realized if the instrument were available to the PI in his immediate
area for production of prints, instead of the present procedure of
ordering prints from the Photo Lab. The immediate availability of
these prints will not, however, replace the requirement for Photo
Lab support. Alt:aough the Polaroid camera is now used when pos-
sible, its coverage is limited to a 1.1" x 1.)+" object area on the
Model 316 and an object area of 0.5" x 0.6" on the Model 700.
Targets to be enlarged are often larger than the Polaroid coverage;
therefore, these targets would have to be covered with a number of
overlapping or adjoining photographs which is not satisfactory.
Assistant for Photographic Analysis, PAG
Distribution:
2 - Addressee
1 - IPO/OSB/FAG
1 - Asst for PA
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