Re: [Leica] Color negs on black and white paper

["Roland Smith" <roland@dnai.com>]

My Ilford filter kit has only grades 1 thru 4.   If I stack a 4 and a 3 can
I get the same result as a 7?

Roland Smith
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From: Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Color negs on black and white paper


> At 04:03 PM 22/01/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >I have a hurry-up job to do this weekend and only have VC paper at hand.
Am
> >I screwed or is there a way? The picture is for newspaper reproduction
and
> >not exibition.
> >
> >Any tip for anyone who has had success with this would be appreciated.
>
>          The old wire service trick was to use Ilford Multigrade paper
with
> a high contrast filter number,  #4 and above to get the desired effect.
> You'll have to find the right combination. It would not be unusual to go
as
> high as #6 or #7 depending on your negs.
>
> I had a colour head enlarger and I (If i remember... it's been 10 years)
> used to dial in 70cc magenta and 10cc yellow to get the approx #5 contrast
> filter ...or something like that.
>
> It works, I swear!. ...and before the days of neg scanning, when we used
to
> have to make 8X10 prints for a drum transmitter, this was how we made
> prints from colour negs.
>
> Like you say, it ain't fine art but it's good enough for news work!
>
> cheers,
>
> Greg Locke                         St. John's, Newfoundland
> locke@straylight.ca              http://www.straylight.ca/locke
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