From: Don Bryant (dsbryant@mindspring.com)
Date: 10/12/02-01:06:53 PM Z
If it is okay with Shannon and Sandy could we discuss this on list as I'm
interested in the testing method too.
Thanks,
Don Bryant
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandy King" <sanking@clemson.edu>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: paper and film testing
>
> Shannon,
>
> I will be happy to try to answer any questions you have about the
> film tests. From what you write I understand that may have had film
> tested by the View Camera Store. If so, I am familiar with the method
> of testing since it is the one described by Phil Davis in Beyond the
> Zone System and it is a good system for calibrating film speed and
> contrast to your printing process.
>
> Sandy King
>
>
>
>
> >I have a question about paper and film testing that I'd like to discuss
> >with somebody knowledgeable about these matters, off the list, because it
> >involves the services of a business that does this. I had a paper and
> >film test done and I'm not sure how to interpret the results that I got
> >back. The company sent me five sheets of film that had been exposed with
> >a stouffer step tablet, and I processed them at different times, and sent
> >them back with paper samples that had also had a stouffer step tablet
> >printed on them. The idea was to figure out what the right film speeds
> >and development times were for different papers and subject brightness
> >ranges. I think Sandy was discussing his own tests of this sort this
past
> >summer.
> >
> >--shannon
>
>
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