Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sounds interesting. I've always just wasted paper :-) I've always wondered about analyzers and things like that. Eye-balling it is what I ended up doing. Daniel On 2/9/06, Richard <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote: > Ah, two things: 1) Dry Down effect is fairly consistent with the same paper > and developer. Do the test once, and then adjust the timing when you make > the final print whenever you use the same paper and developer, 2) the RH > Analyzer supposedly avoids the Dry Down effect because you spot the whitest > white with details and the darkest dark with details. If you trust that, > then you can more or less ignore what you see because the Dry Down is built > into the calculation. > > At 11:59 PM 2/8/2006, Daniel Ridings wrote: > >...But I never found working in the darkroom an immediate experience. You > >always had to guess the "dry down" effect on the print, how it would > >look the next day when it was dry. A print can look beautiful with > >rich, deep blacks when it is wet ... but dry it and you get another > >print. > > > >No, immediency is not something I would apply to wet darkrooms. > >... > > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please > use richard at imagecraft.com) > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >