Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/25

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Subject: RE: [Leica] printing questions
From: "Mueller, Rob" <rob.mueller@eds.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:17:19 -0400

Almost Mark, although this works well most of the time. think in terms of
percentages, because no two days in the darkroom are the same. humidity,
paper, developer, etc. and then say, 10s is a stop. of course, those of us
with a closed loop system can regulate a little beter with light/age
degradation and some of us can alter the light for density (= to stops) from
the lighthead controller.

Rob Mueller
Studies in Black and White
www.studiesinblackandwhite.com 
rob@studiesinblackandwhite.com




- -----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 1:06 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] printing questions


Jason Hall wrote:
> 
> Richard Ross of RH and Tim Rudman are both on the Pure Silver list,
> http://www.tundraware.com/pure-silver there have been some lengthy
> discussions on f stop printing.
> 
> Jason

If I expose a print for 10 seconds and it hit the floor switch (which i
highly
recommend) to burn the sky for another 10 seconds I'll think of it and write
on
the back of the print:
"B sky 1S"
burn sky one stop.
I heard it was good a while back to think in terms of "stops" as much as you
can
in the darkroom.
So I have done that with my dodging and burning and i think it helps.
Especially when you DONT change your F stop at a different magnification.
Because it does not help to in your own head think about "hold 5 seconds on
the
face" as a matter of course.
When five seconds could represent a half or a quarter or less, of a stop.
Mark W. Rabiner
:)