[Leica] Before Photoshop

[benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)]

When I did printing work I would often get diagrams like this.  At
first it's not that easy to figure out what order to do them in.  But
you get there.  I'd bet, however, that bet Avedon's printer was better
than me.

The worst, though, was a client who really loved the really high
highlight contrast of Ilford Multigrade III.  When MG IV came out and
had lower highlight contrast he switched to Forte Polycontrast V and
had me print everything a bit darker in the highlights and then bleack
them back.  After 20 or so prints it was excruciating.  I also bet
that a video of me printing like this would look nowhere near as
elegant and almost ballet-like as the one of Nathalie Lopparelli:
http://www.laboratoire-tirages-argentiques.com/prestation-eng.html

Marty