Re: Gum calibration (was: Paper negatives- Ink Selection)
Keith, I've said this before, but since it keeps coming up I'll say it one more time: if your goal is to reduce exposure times, this isn't the most fruitful place to look IMO. Mark has pointed out that exposure time isn't a function of printer, ink type, ink color or printer settings: ender100 wrote: > Exposure time does not depend on the printer, ink or color of the > negative—it merely depends on the substrate you are printing > on—providing all other variables are equal. and logic says that exposure time can't be a function of curves, since the exposure time is established before the curve is calibrated, and doesn't change after the curve is calibrated. Exposure time is a function of a lot of things such as light source, dichromate concentration, pigment concentration, paper speed, environmental conditions; how the negative is generated is not a significant factor, in my experience. Katharine On Oct 17, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Keith Gerling wrote: It helps. The negatives are pretty dense. When you started to talk about negative density I was getting concerned. The only Pictorico negatives I've actually held in my hand were some made by Sandy King and I was astonished that he was able to get such a range of tones from something that looked so "thin". Your paper negs don't look any different from mine. 2008/10/17 Loris Medici <mail@loris.medici.name>:17 Ekim 2008, Cuma, 5:50 pm tarihinde, Keith Gerling yazmış:... I'd be very interested in seeing a snapshot of one of your un-oiled negs, if that would be possible. Just something that give me an idea of your range of tones.See here: 1. http://tinyurl.com/68txaw (full 400dpi scan downsized to screen resolution) 2. http://tinyurl.com/698az2 (100% crop of the 400dpi scan) Hope that helps somehow... Regards, Loris.
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