----- Original Message ----- From: "Collin Brendemuehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:35 PM Subject: OT: Blacks in darkroom I'm noticing with my RCIII prints that the blacks aren't really as black as I'd like them to be. They're a sort of deep charcoal, but not a really rich black. Am I (a) imaging things, (b) needing to experiment with different papers or chemicals, or (c) looking at the prints too closely. Presuming your developer is good, RC papers (especially Kodak) tend to not have the deepest blacks anyway. Not enough silver in em. You really need to go to premium fiber papers to get truly black blacks. Also, extended wet times can have a bad effect on RC papers D-Max (thats how black the blacks are). So, keep your wet times to a minimum, and maybe bump the development times to set the blacks better. If this doesn't help, you might want to switch to better paper. William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
