Ah good call on testing the fallout with a meter. I have a Sekonic 758 so I can see if it may be sensitive enough. I think I'd be fine with contact printing, I was just worried about the Callier Quotient. I have an Aristo Cold Light on my Omega D2 which is a diffusion head so that Quotient affects me less (with my D2 condensers it was pretty extreme) though not sure by how much.
Initially I just kinda wanted to have some tests to get an idea of what the filters are actually doing, optionally between papers. Should help me figure out base exposure times but also which papers are contrastier than others (or so was my thought).
I didn't quite follow this:
Basically you're saying I should NOT change the times from 00 to 5, but I SHOULD make sure the base exposure is enough to make sure I get useful results at 00 and 5? Perhaps it will become clear when I actually do the tests
As a follow up though if I don't compensate for #4 and above, would I still compensate for them when printing? Ilford suggests if I'm say using a #2 filter but want to go to a #4 I need to double my exposure (either time or by opening the lens up 1 stop).
If I understand how the strip is supposed to work - that would mean the results would be shifted by 2 steps (since each step is 1/2 stop) from where I ran the tests if I didn't change the time?
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