Originally Posted by
Drew Wiley
Torquemada - Ironically, you're the one named after the torture chamber Inquisitor methodologist, not me. I typically need only one of two small test strips to tell me exactly what I need to do. It's fast and inexpensive. But Trying to pigeonhole modern VC paper response into old grade numbers that never were consistent brand to brand to begin with is a redundant waste of time and energy. And it won't get you a hole in one anyway.
No, it's not 1990 - most darkroom approaches have actually degraded from that era. Incidentally, I never bracketed even color chrome exposures. The invention of light meters solved that issue. And by 1990, color films were being very consistently coated batch to batch. And in 1990, I was mostly shooting 8X10 film, so trial duplicate exposures were out of the question - it had to be done right the first time, every time.
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