sstoney@pdq.net
Date: 10/13/02-08:30:09 AM Z
Dave wrote:
> Is there a cost for doing what you are doing? If so, I think you should
> consider getting/borrowing a book on sensitometry and buying a used
> densitometer considering your interest in this area.
Yes, I have done that. I read the BTZS book (or tried to) and did some of
the little exercises in it. Where I got stalled was where you need a
reflection densitometer. Mine is transmission only. I use it a lot, and
consider it a very helpful tool, but it can't read paper densities. The
test was not especially expensive considering all the information I got
from it.
>
> There is a learning curve in learning the curves, but once you get
> there, you can look at a curve and pre-visualize what kind of image you
> can produce and what kind of effect for overexposure, underexposure,
> etc. You can even pre-visualize the apparent sharpeness that you can
> achieve with a particular process. It is both interesting and fun.
I hope to get to that point some day. I think I am starting to understand
it better as a result of having about twenty five curves to look at now.
Actually I am leaning now more toward learning to develop by inspection.
I found a green safelight filter at B and H. Now I just have to see if it
fits my safelight fixture.
--shannon
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