Pretty darned good analogy Bruce. Perhaps somewhat more like a photograph, imagine putting an image on the deflated balloon (the balloon being much like the negative in this case) and then blow up the balloon. You'll see the image degrade as the balloon grows in size (like a print would degrade)
Now, let's put an image on a partially inflated balloon, and then blow it up further. The image still degrades, but the balloon has to be blown up bigger to get the same degree of degradation you would with the image from the deflated balloon. HTH, Shel Bruce Dayton wrote: > Hello John, > > >From what I've observed, it seems a bit more like the balloon concept. > Before you blow up a balloon, the color is quite rich and dark. The > more air you put in (enlarge), the color gets thinner. I would > suspect that the same holds true to some degree with enlarging. > Because you are not enlarging the big negative as much, it would > appear a bit richer than the small negative. This is just an > observation, rather than a known fact. >
