Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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/ +------------ > > > >