From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 06/27/01-10:02:47 AM Z
>
> I had posed a question about controlling the contrast of POP prints. Anyone
> have any thoughts on this?
>
> -christine
>
If your negative is contrasty enough in the first place (MUCH more contrasty
than for silver or even Pt/Pd) the self-masking of the silver POP process
gives you an elastic contrast. The more you expose, the lower the contrast
gets, because the highlights keep gaining density while the shadows gain at
a much slower rate. So you almost can't have too much contrast in the
negative. *Raising* contrast with silver POP because the negative isn't hot
enough in the first place is a different matter. Perhaps someone who works
routinely in the process has some suggestions for that.---Carl
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