[pure-silver] Re: Pre-Exposure of Negatives

I use it mainly to control contrast when shooting color transparencies. I shoot transparencies 80% of the time.

I use N- exposure & processing to control B&W contrast. I have used pre-exposure with B&W, but if N-3 won't pull it in, or it puts the development time below 5 min, I have used pre-exposure to boost it back up to N-2 or N-1. Or, I have used water bath development to reign in high contrast (a polar bear standing in the mouth of a coal mine in direct sunlight).

Jim


At 03:05 PM 7/19/2006 -0700, Frank Filippone wrote: 
Not better, it is another choice.

You could use N- development and increase time to get back your contrast.... test, test, test......

The original issue was had anyone the data to perform the "trick" of pre-exposure...... I think you got some answers, but not many
use this technique at all or frequently. If you add to that the ability of the user to print successfully ( a master printer could
make gold out of black negatives, some of, myself included could take a gold negative and make it look like trash....) I think you
have too many variables.....individual variables.

Where are you going on this subject?  Help us get there a bit faster.....

Frank Filippone
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