Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have printed color negatives on variable contrast paper, Ilford Multigrade IV, using a 4 and a 3 filter stacked. It takes over two (2) minutes exposure at f8. This brings the contrast into the usable range for commencing with burning and dodging. Roland Smith - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Brick" <jim@brick.org> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 9:10 AM Subject: [Leica] Re: Dec National Geo... > At 11:43 AM 12/2/00 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > >I was wondering. > >Is there (should there be) > >a difference between > >BW prints done off colour negatives > >and BW prints done of BW negatives, > >assuming a BW enlarger, BW paper and chemicals? > >Javier > > > > Yes. A color neg still contains all of the color, just in negative rather > than positive form. Plus the orange mask. To print color neg as B&W in a > wet darkroom, you need a panchromatic paper such as Kodak Panalure. It is > B&W but must be handled in complete darkness. I never liked the results > with Panalure but they at least were prints. > > Jim >