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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Don
> Williams Finland
>
>
> The plots were made on the red channel. For certain technical
> reasons it is impossible to scan all the channels at once. The
> others give similar results. Unfortunately Scion Image scales the
> Y axis and so one needs to look at the values. The scanning range
> is 1 to 256 grey levels and was done on a line, one pixel wide,
> through the centre of the negative horizontally.
>
> Frame plot01n   1/125/f 8  density range  - 104 to 253
> Frame plot02n   1/250/f 8  density range  -   51 to 246
> Frame plot03n   1/500/f 8  density range  -   30 to 231
>
> The first negative is so dense* that it would be very
> difficult if not
> impossible to obtain any kind of print. While some parts of the
> second negative might be printable detail is missing in the denser
> parts. The third negative, exposed at 1/500 at f 8 is good and will
> produce a good print.
>
> * Over-exposed or over-developed whichever you like.

They're different things.

Is it possible it actually *is* overexposed, and 1/500th or
thereabouts is actually closer to the correct exposure for ISO 400?
You're absolutely dead certain yu metereed correctly?

tv
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