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----- Original Message ----- From: <kpp@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: Enlarger filter question + my next Gallery submission
From/Áðü: "James B. Davis" jbdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date/Çìåñ: 18-Éáí-2005, 1:47 ðì Subject/ÈÝìá: Re: Enlarger filter question
No, but I have tried every possible combo of colour dichroic light from a Durst CLS 450 head. I started out with Kodak's recommended and hey you know they did plenty of testing with this stuff, and if they could have cranked more contrast out of their MC paper they would have. I ended up with slight variations of their published filtration but it's always been a known fact that MG papers do not grade the same as SG papers. MG filter #4 might give you a #3 paper grade, but I doubt it. I'd say MG is capable of grades 0-2 and that's it.
boy oh boy have i stirred the ashes!
first i should be more specific with the question....indeed we are missing a no3 filter and we cannot get one anytime soon. (there are still the opemus 6 enlargers with the onboard filtration though)
i will be llooking at the kodak website to get a manual..good lead, thanks
i still explore filtration....my next Gallery submission will be a photo printed on Kodabrome grade 3 with a no2 filter. it was my second try, the first being an unfiltered multigrade paper print, and i almost got what i wanted.
Since e-mailing the image to the gallery i have printed it again with 0,2,3,4 filter and 3 preflashes (o.75 1.2 and 2 secs). i almost got it perfect with the no3 one, but i will go to a 2.5 filter, fill in the blank of the no1 sample, and maybe i will try the q-tip method...
printing that same frame has almost become an obsession, but it is on-hand instruction for me, lacking anyone to actually teach me in person
(though you have all been very halpful, your replies being saved for future refference)
anyway, thanks all, a new question is coming next, kostas
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