I appreciate those of you with personal experience with stand developing sharing your experiences. Correct me if I'm wrong in the conclusions I draw here:
The benefits of stand development are: a) Conservation of developer. Very diluted, but not reused (unless you are saving it to use as "old brown" later). b) Done correctly, the goal is to not block up (preserve detail) in the highlights, and to pull out as much detail as possible in the shadow areas. c) Stand development doesn't care what the film speed is or if you pushed or pulled the ISO.. it is going to do the above for whatever detail you were able to capture. This also makes it great for developing film of an unknown ISO/ASA. The downsides seem to be limited to: a) you are going to get a flatter, lower contrast negative in most cases. However, this is not a problem if you are: a) scanning the negatives b) possibly not a problem if you have higher contrast paper, or can dial in higher contrast on Multi-Contrast paper, using a dichroic color enlarger head. c) but it seems it is not great for Zone System work. Have I missed anything or gotten anything incorrect? On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > Contact prints are now possible from digital negatives printed on > transparency material up to whatever size of transparency film you've > got. Of course, you have just moved the problem from the size of your > camera and film to the size of your printer and transparency roll, but > the point is that you can to 24" wide contact prints now. Not many > people had/have 20x24 large format cameras. Also, if something happens > to your negative you can just print a new one. > > I understand that properly exposed chromes are amazing, but I never > have understood the appeal of a chrome as the medium. Pass the slide > viewer... ooh! I realize that there was a time when Cibachrome was a > thing for getting impressive prints from positives. > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 2:20 AM, J.C. O'Connell <[email protected]> wrote: >> there are two ultimates in large format photography, especially when using a >> 8x10 camera. Contact Prints, and Chromes. Both look truly amazing, >> unmatched by any other photographic schemes analog or digital. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” > ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above -- “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above -- 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.
