One suggested method to reduce contrast on chromes is to pre-flash them
at, I believe, 1/10th their proper exposure. This creates a "fog" which
reduces the contrast.
Art
Michael Wilkinson wrote:
> Tony,
> Despite protestations from others on the list concerning only processing
> at industry standards
> it is easy to reduce contrast on tranny film.
> You do need to experiment but basically you need to overexpose and
> underdevelop.
> For a long time we used this technique to make duplicate transparencies
> until we were able to purchase duplicating film for the job.
> We used Ektachrome tungsten,overexposed by 2 stops and reduced the fist
> dev time from 7 minutes to 5 minutes.
> To stop anyone shouting what about the cross curves we used a different
> filter pack to compensate.
> this is a simple technique which works exceedingly well but you must
> experiment.
>
