RE: Dmax of VD prints

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Sandy King wrote:
>
> Yes, the border should tell the story. If you don't have good Dmax
> there then the negative is not the problem.
>
>
> As for tests with the step wedge, I wonder what kind of tonal range
> people are getting with VD, and if this varies with papers? I ask
> because my understanding from the literature is that the process has
> a exposure scale of about 1.4-1.6, or about 5+ stops. Yet the
> sensitizer I mixed up a few days ago, to the exact specifications of
> classic VD, has an exposure scale of about 2.7, or nine  stops. That


It has been my (expressed) opinion that whoever says "the scale is such
and such" without stating on what paper is not to be trusted. It has been
my finding that scale of all these processes tends to change with the
paper (among other variables).

Judy