Originally Posted by
D. Bryant
Assuming you've solved your clearing / staining problems. You now need to determine the exposure scale of your printing process. And then make negatives that fit the process.
You can determine this with a step tablet. And then arrive at the proper exposure/development time of your film empirically through test printing (or use a densitometer.)
IOW, your negatives lack proper contrast and you can't make it up successfully with contrast additives. Those are useful when your negative is off slightly.
Or learn to make digital negatives that fit your process scale.
The answers are simple but require work through testing.
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