Hi Tom
I can't help wondering if your problem lies in developing, rather than
printing. Your cat pictures have very high contast. One way of dealing with
this is to stop development halfway through. Exchange the developer with
plain water for a few minutes. Then exchange the water with thr developer
again and proceed as if nothing has happened. This procedure will reduce the
contrast and make printing easy (normal).
Best Regards
Jens
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Emne: Re: OT: Ilford film choice
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
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> Maybe I can learn something from your problems. At what EI do
> you expose Delta 100, and under what lighting conditions? What
> developer have you used? Time/temp/agitation?
I shot these back before I had a darkroom or was doing my own
processing, so these are all (3 rolls?) at EI 100, souped in TMAX, which
is what my lab used for everything.
The *one* beautiful neg I was talking about was shot in diffuse lighting
conditions, and this is the neg that got me thinking I should try and
work with this stuff.
Last week I shot a 'test' roll - basically pictures of my cat (just
about perfectly 18% gray), heavily backlit. I shot at 100, souped in
FX39 at 1:19 for 16.5 minutes. 1:19 is a fairly dilute for FX-39, so I
was hoping for a little compensation. The backlit areas were pretty well
blown out...there's a bit of detail, but maybe beyond my abilities to
print.
Paterson gives 2 times for development for each film, one for a .57
curve, one for .7. 16.5 minutes is about in-between. I'll probably dial
it down to 14 minutes next time.
I also plan to try XTOL...Aaron has been spazzing about Studional, so I
may try that too, since it seems to be pretty versatile.
Some people (Mike? ;) ) may think all this fiddling around is futile,
but I find it to be kind of fun.
tv
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