Re: (Gum) Tonal scale

From: Katharine Thayer ^lt;kthayer@pacifier.com>
Date: 11/29/05-11:36:30 PM Z
Message-id: <42272228-6163-11DA-94C8-001124D9AC0A@pacifier.com>

On Nov 29, 2005, at 9:00 PM, Ender100@aol.com wrote:

> How bout using the term Exposure Scale for the number of steps the
> process prints?

Mark,
I don't care what you call it, as long as you don't confuse it with
density range, which was my point here.
Katharine

> Mark Nelson
> www.precisiondigitalnegatives.com
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> In a message dated 11/29/05 1:23:50 PM, kthayer@pacifier.com writes:
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> Hmm, this  brings out another source of confusion when talking about 
> tonal range....  I thought Yves was talking about density values
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> 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.
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> Mark Nelson
> Precision Digital Negatives
Received on Tue Nov 29 23:37:18 2005

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