Anthony Farr wrote:

> In response to some masking problems from "Bucky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>

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> >
> > If there are other approaches that may be more technically correct, I am
> > interested.
> >
> AFAIK, the orange mask on colour negatives is not a uniform density of
> orange but is developed proportionally to the density of the image.

The base of color negative film is that color. Development of the image changes
it .......  not.

On the couple of generations ago minilabs, you had to put a piece of developed
and cleared 120 color negative film into the filter drawer to print a B&W
negative on color paper. Now they do that internally, with a B&W "setting."

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