Originally Posted by
coops
After being away for several months I finely made it back into the darkroom last night to make some prints. I had been disapointed with my prints since day one and almost gave up on it. I recently purchased a Fuji GF670 and shot off a few rolls and decided to try again. After picking my best test strip I made a print with that exposure and then made another test strip adding some magenta. I arbitrarily picked 60 units? My enlarger goes to 200. Anyway, I made several really good prints ( for me anyway), and am really looking forward to making more. My question though. As I said I picked 60 units of magenta for no good reason. Is say 10 seconds exposure of 60 Magenta the same as 5 seconds of 30 magenta? Or 20 seconds of 120 units? How do you choose how much filtration?
By the way, I shot Hp5 at box speed using the manual settings on the camera as opposed to spot metering with my 4x5, and the negatives were all fantastic. Perhaps I was doing something wrong when shooting 4x5 and thats why my prints were not so good. The Fuji is sharp also.
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