Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Another possibility is a faulty safe light. The filters on safe lights age. Gareth Jolly - -----Original Message----- From: Robert G. Stevens <robsteve@istar.ca> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 9:33 Subject: [Leica] muddy prints >Martin: > >Two causes of these muddy prints is exhausted developer, or a safelight too >close fogging the paper or of the wrong type. This is all assuming you >have decent negatives to start with and are using the paper developer to >its proper time and not yanking the pints out when they start to get dark. >Another mistake is when you do get the processing right, a print looks >contrastier while wet and can sometimes be disappointing when it dry and >need to be printed on a higher grade of paper. > >Regards, > >Robert > >At 10:44 AM 5/10/99 +0200, you wrote: >> >>Ted Grant wrote: >>> >>> Did anyone besides me take a frame or two? :) >>> >> >>Nope -- I spent ten hours in the darkroom, inhaling fixer fumes and >>swearing over my inability to print anything better than a one hour >>photostop. Almost all my prints seem to have a low contrast, muddy >>grey tone to them, despite using grade 4 paper... >> >>M. >> >>-- >>Martin Howard, Grad. Schl. for Human-Machine Interaction, | >>HMI/IKP, Linkoping University, SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden.| Just >>Tel: +46 13 28 5741; Fax: +46 28 2579; ICQ: 354739 | say "DOOH" >>E-mail: marho@ikp.liu.se; www.iav.ikp.liu.se/staff/marho/ +------------ >> >> >> >> >