[rollei_list] Re: OT film advice, film vs. digital

From: "dnygr" <dnygr@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:32:34 -0500

Jim, thank you for your description. I may follow your lead on this.

Doug


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From: Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:58:43 -0700

>Mostly, I make sure that my highlights fall in zone VII when I 
>release the shutter. If the shadows that I really want to see fall 
>below zone III, I pre-flash the film. I put a white diffusion filter 
>in front of my lens and make an exposure somewhere between Zone I and 
>II, then via double exposure, make the normal scene exposure. This 
>works pretty well and keeps the Velvia brilliance. The other way to 
>quieten highlights is to over expose and under develop but this has a 
>tendency to flatten out Velvia's brilliance.
>
>My normal Ciba paper is CF.1k which is the low contrast version of 
>Ciba paper. It is rare that I have to make a mask, but, sometimes I 
>have to - fortunately, not very often. Probably once a year.
>
>Jim
>
>
>At 08:10 AM 7/18/2007 -0400, Douglas Nygren wrote:
>
>>Jim, how do you handle the highlights on Cibachrome paper. My friend 
>>masked them. Do you do that as well. Always seemed like a lot of 
>>work to me. The results, however, were stunning.
>>
>>Doug
>
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