Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:25:20 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 FotoDave@aol.com wrote:
> Lith film can be successfully processed for low contrast, but to use it in
> direct reversal process is more difficult / challenging. The reason is if we
> process the film to low contrast, the high density area is not fully
> developed, so after the reversal, the Dmin would be high, which will give long
> printing time.
>
> The way to try to work around it is to expose the film to near the shoulder
> (but still have good separation) and then develop it to full in order to get
> reasonable Dmin, but of course when you do that, the contrast will be very
> high. I believe that is the reason why some are working on tests in the
> attempt to tame the contrast during the re-development.
>
If we're talking about the same thing, we got "normal" contrast in
reversal. The secret (Liam's method) is the measured flash.
Judy
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