From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 11/02/01-01:27:44 PM Z
Nick,
Two thoughts. First, that's a huge amount of contrast agent. In general I
think it's best to make a negative that requires no contrast agent at all,
but certainly a drop of 4% chlorate in just 13 drops of sensitizer is really
over the top.
Second, you may be chasing a phantom looking to print the extremes. It may
be more realistic to expect your good print density values to result from
negative densities ranging from (just for instance) 15% to 85%. As long as
the pictorial information lies within that range a picture should print
well--assuming those are the density extremes that the paper responds to.
Certainly my in-camera negatives don't place subject tones anywhere near
clear film or opaque density--the top and bottom 5% of a digital neg.
---Carl
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