Although I brought along a 8x10 camera in a recent trip in case a Kallitype image should appear (and several did!), the main idea was to photograph a particular subject with a 4x5 camera fitted with a 250mm Imagon soft focus lens and enlarge the negative onto 11x14 Ilford Art 300 paper.
Now my usual working procedure when printing silver gelatin is to find the correct exposure for the whites at grade 2 and then adjusting the paper grade to “pop” the blacks. Usually this ends-up with in a grade 2.5 print from a 4x5 negative. But suppose you wanted to go in the opposite direction and wanted a grade 0 or 1 print as the result? Would you still start at grade 2 and determine the exposure and contrast for the whites and blacks as above - presumably ending-up at grade 2.5 - and then adjust the contrast down to suit your vision or would you start at grade 0 or 1 and work from there?
Thomas
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