How bout using the term Exposure Scale for the number of steps the process
prints?
Mark Nelson
www.precisiondigitalnegatives.com
In a message dated 11/29/05 1:23:50 PM, kthayer@pacifier.com writes:
> Hmm, this brings out another source of confusion when talking about
> tonal range.... I thought Yves was talking about density values rather
> than number of steps. You can get the same number of steps with a
> light-valued pigment as with a dark-valued pigment, for example, by
> choosing the pigment concentration and exposure to achieve that result,
> but the density range between the darkest and lightest step, and the
> density of the darkest step, will be considerably different for the
> two pigments.
> kt
>
Mark Nelson
Precision Digital Negatives
Received on Tue Nov 29 23:01:19 2005
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