Several weeks ago I purchased a used Super Chromega D Dichroic II. I have not used it because, well I don't know how. No instruction manual and all the guy I bought it off could tell me was " focus with the white light, stop down two, and then use the high setting for the light. And avaoid the yellow and cyan". Well, it's a start. So I opened a pack of Ilford multigrade RC paper and made a test strip. Around 22 seconds at F8 looked best for the blacks, but the whites were kinda grey, and dull.
I decided to experiment and up the magenta from 0 to 35 and do a little dodging. Better, so I went up to 45 on the magenta, better, then to 65, great. 70 was not so good. Then I develiped the paper an extra minute from 2 to 3 mins, and now my whites are pretty much white.
My prints now, in my opinion, look better than my inkjet prints, and I thought they were pretty good. But this was far more satisfying. It seems the variables are endless for printing. Where do you stop with the experimenting?
Can someone tell me what the magenta was doing to the print? Was it increasing contrast?
And do the cyan and yellow do anything for black and white?
Cheers
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