Re: Highlights or Shadows in Negatives?

Sandor Mathe (sandor.mathe@prior.ca)
Mon, 27 Oct 1997 13:13:07 -0500

> From: FotoDave@aol.com

> Is it a common (or even standard) practice that when we say highlights we
> always mean the highlights of the original scenes regardless of whether we
> are talking about prints or negatives? In other words, when we say a
> particular developer is giving such and such effect on highlights, we mean
> the densed part of the negative?

That's how I've always seen it. One way to look at is that the
negative does not *have* highlights or shadows, but represents them
via density variations.

Sandor Mathe -- sandor.mathe@prior.ca
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