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Rick Newton wrote; >Panalure is awful, the stuff is horrible to work with. Since it is >sensitive to all wavelengths of light like normal color paper, you cannot >correct for contrast, which is essential for a good looking B/W print. >Your color neg has to be close to right on, otherwise underexposed negs >produce very flat prints, or overexposed very contrasty. You are gaining >nothing as far as I am concerned. Not exactly true. The last time I bought Panalure, Kodak made 3 different contrast grades of Panalure paper. Panalure offers a good solution to a problem that seems to cause some photographers grief. How to distinguish the SP scarlet SP bloody nose from the dark lark gray body color. Some black and white prints made with b&w film and filters make the red a very unsightly overly light gray. With Panalure and a Dichroic head on your enlarger one can make the difference obvious but not unreal. Dave Cohen wrote: >If you are looking for fudge factors at this point, it doesn't matter what >type of film you shoot. You use what you need to use to get the type of >output you need if you have an intended purpose for the image. If you >don't know why you are shooting what you are shooting, then I can't help >you. > I know a few people that shoot negs because they can't properly expose a chrome to >save their caboose. Is that fun? I don't know; when I shoot anything, I try my >damnedest to properly expose it, no matter what. I get great satisfaction >from looking at my properly exposed film, and I get irritated looking at my >film that is not, but I also learn something from it by looking at it >Publications don't have time to deal with photographers who are still learning how to >shoot. If you don't think you are all that consistent yet, then you can learn, and that can >be fun too in the railroad photography hobby. No one looking for fudge factors here. I am speaking those of us who are mere mortals and who on occasion miss an exposure. If every frame of film you expose is perfectly composed and exposed then you would not be interested in a system that can bail you out occasionally. I have been photographing trains for almost 40 years and I do shoot 35mm and medium format chrome as well as color negative film. Being a slow learner I dont have all the answers yet. Don Bowen Exeter, CA ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
