[pure-silver] Re: multigrade paper is amazing

  • From: Claudio Bonavolta <claudio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:08:54 +0100

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De: Peter De Smidt <pdesmidt@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:00:28 -0600
Sujet: [pure-silver] Re: multigrade paper is amazing
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>Using manufacturer's suggested contrast settings on a color enlarger to 
>get specific a specific log exposure range is much like using suggested 
>developing times: they give a rough estimation that can be improved 
>significantly by personal testing. The best thing I ever did with 
>regards to bw printing was to calibrate my system such that I could 
>change contrast in predictable ways without changing exposure. Thus, I 
>could exposure for the light print values and filter for the darker 
>ones.  Paul Butzi outlines a way to do this at: 
>http://www.butzi.net/articles/vcce.htm . This list's own Ralph Lambrecht 
>(along with Chris Woodhouse), do an excellent job of explaining LERs and 
>similar things in their book /Way Beyond Monochrome/.
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Ralph made some articles of his book available online, among these one about 
using color heads with multigrade:
http://www.darkroomagic.com/Publications/WBM/wbm.htm

But that book should be owned by every darkroom enthusiast ...

Claudio Bonavolta
http://www.bonavolta.ch
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