On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:15 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Wright" > Subject: Contrast control with b&w > > >> Through a wonderful book given to me by a wonderful PDML member I've >> been relearning the intricacies of b&w film. >> >> One aspect that I didn't fully understand before was the whole >> underexpose/overdevelop thing. But I get it this time around. >> >> My question is this, does that same principle apply if I have the >> films machine developed. In other words, under- or overexpose but then >> have the negs developed "normally?" > > No, you really have to be able to control the development as well, which > means custom processing. When I was running my darkroom as a business I > spent quite a bit of time working with several professional photographers, > figuring out what development routine was "normal" for their work. > Machine processing tends to equal over development. > > William Robb >
Home B&W processing is so easy and cheap that I can't see a good reason to pay a lab for it unless time is an issue. I still shoot a fair bit of B&W film and do all my own B&W processing. At $1/roll or less (depending on developer). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
