Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: > > Snip> Development for the relationship only > > between two tones would be inaccurate and in practice I've never done it. > > Yes, but in the end, the relationsihp will never be linear, because film is > on a curve, and so is paper, so you've got two curves, and the physical > impossibility of representing gray tones in a linear fashion, keeping one > from having paper reflect 8 times as much light between Zone III and VI in > the negative. That was the original question, no? > If it was then I am agreeing with you...or you are agreeing with me. Mark Rabiner