[pure-silver] Split printing C41

Ralph, I'm curious to know why you say this. In printing to color papers, yes, 
split 
printing would seem to be pointless; but b&w papers are dealing with light and 
dyes - 
blue and green dyes. By split printing (using a color head enlarger, anyhow, 
with 
magenta and yellow), you capitalize on this by severely narrowing the spectrum 
of the 
light color so it more or less affects only one of the dyes. Magenta will 
register the 
shadows, yellow will bring out details.  I can't for the life of me see how 
film type would 
negate this.

Mind you, I've only ever split printed silver gelatin and HIE. When I printed 
w/ b&w C-41, 
it was prior to discovering the split method. So maybe there's a distinction 
here that 
would be obvious to someone who had tried?

Mike

On 30 Sep 2004 at 17:57, DarkroomMagic wrote:

> He is probably referring to split-grade printing, which is the
> combination of two separate exposures, one with a soft and the other
> with a hard filter. It is a very useful tool when local dodging or
> burning is combined with this technique. Otherwise, it is exactly the
> same as using a color enlarger and mixing soft and hard filtration in
> one exposure.
> 
> Nevertheless, it has no influence on your problem. It doesn't help or
> hurt in printing C41 films.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> 
> Ralph W. Lambrecht
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/30/04 2:19 PM, "shannon stoney" <sstoney@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> we always have one or two students each session who try printing
> >> c-41 processed b&w negatives. the times will be longer and the
> >> contrast can be a stuggle; however, it can be done. Someone
> >> suggested that split printing is very helpful with these negatives.
> >> I shot some stuff using a roll of Kodak's version to experiment
> >> with split printing to have a better understanding so i could
> >> better assist my students. It is still on my list to accomplish
> >> before the end of the year.
> > 
> > 
> > What is split printing?
> > 
> > --shannon
> > 
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