In an effort to take grade 3 Lodima paper down a half or, ideally, a full grade I am looking for techniques that would do this and came across this on the Adox Lupex data sheet:
LUPEX comes in the universal grade 3. The grade can be reduced by pre-exposing the paper. In order to do this the paper is exposed under the lightbulb for a few seconds* before the negative is placed on top and the "real“ exposure takes place. * The optimal pre exposure has to be found by tests. It is usually between 5 and 15 seconds.
Anyone use this technique to their satisfaction? Used in conjunction with water bath development? I'm going to give it a try and report back.
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